Fig. 5. Competitive models for piericidin inhibition of complex I in proteoliposomes.
a One-site competitive inhibition mechanism. b Two-site competitive inhibition mechanism. In both cases, rapid reoxidation of ubiquinol by AOX (k4) prevents appreciable levels accumulating. Experimentally-measured rates (average ± standard deviation, n = 3) are shown in KM and IC50 plots, alongside the best-fit predictions from the models (see Supplementary Table 3 for parameters). c Plots of trends in KM,app, Vmax,app, IC50 and Hill slope produced by fitting KM and IC50 curves to the experimental data (black points, error bars are 95% confidence intervals) and to the output data from the models. The SSR values are 201 and 46.7 for a and b, respectively.