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. 1972 Apr;127(2):321–333. doi: 10.1042/bj1270321

A linear equation that describes the steady-state kinetics of enzymes and subcellular particles interacting with tightly bound inhibitors

Peter J F Henderson 1,*
PMCID: PMC1178592  PMID: 4263188

Abstract

When an enzyme exhibits a high affinity for an inhibitor, the steady-state analysis of the mechanism is complicated by the non-linearity of normal dose–response plots or of reciprocal replots. It is shown here that dose–response measurements generate a linear plot of inhibitor concentration divided by degree of inhibition against velocity without inhibitor divided by velocity with inhibitor; the concentration of enzyme may be derived from the extrapolated intercept of such plots, and the mechanism of inhibition from replots of the variation of the slope with substrate concentration. The limiting cases where virtually all inhibitor molecules are bound or virtually all are free are described, together with the situation when a significant proportion of the substrate becomes bound. This type of analysis indicates that the inhibitors of oxidative phosphorylation, rutamycin and bongkrekic acid, are tightly bound to rat liver mitochondria.

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