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Deadly_king:

--- Quote from: thecandydoll on September 12, 2010, 08:30:05 am ---I understood that thanks :D

I have one doubt.

Assuming there is a competive inhibitor,how would you plot the graph of rateofreaction against, substrate concentration

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Competitive inhibition will only decrease the initial rate of reaction. But as concentration of substrate increases the rate of reaction will increase too as the incidence of a substrate combining with an enzyme will be much greater than the incidence of ai inhibitor combining with an enzyme.

Comparing a normal graph of rate against substrate concentration, that with a competitive inhibitor will have a lower gradient initially since rate of reaction is smaller. However both of them will reach compensation point and both graph follows same trend :)

Hope it was clear enough :)

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