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Competitive vs non-competitive enzyme inhibition - how to tell them apart?
Confused about the effect on Km and Vmax.
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Competitive: Vmax unchanged, Km increases (overcome by more substrate). Non-competitive: Vmax decreases, Km unchanged. Sketching Lineweaver-Burk plots makes it click.
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