Enzyme inhibitors are molecules that decrease the activity of酶, and knowledge about inhibitors can, for example, be used in developing drugs or in the study of biochemical pathways, because inhibitors provide a way to interfere with these pathways. Enzyme inhibitors can be either irreversible or reversible; irreversible inhibitors decrease enzymatic activity by destroying the enzyme through various mechanisms, while reversible inhibitors keep the enzyme functional. The inhibitors we will study here are reversible inhibitors [1].
酶抑制剂的机制可以分为3个主要组:竞争性抑制剂,非竞争性抑制剂和混合抑制剂。竞争性抑制剂在与底物竞争中与酶的活性位点结合起作用;非竞争性抑制剂与不同活性位点不同的位点的酶 - 底物复合物结合,但它们不能单独与该酶结合,并且混合抑制剂可以与酶和酶 - 覆盖酶和酶 - 卵巢复合物结合在不同于活性的位点的位置[1]。
可以将酶抑制的机理视为延伸到Michaelis-Menten机制and competitive and un-competitive inhibition can be regarded as a special case of mixed inhibition (see Figure 1.a), where K我和K’我are the dissociation constants of the EI and ESI complex, respectively. Using the same approach as that used for deriving the Michaelis-Menten equation (for a detailed derivation, see [2]), the following equation for mixed inhibition can be obtained:
v0= V最大限度•[S] / Km•α+[S]•α’
where α = 1+[I]/K我and α’ = 1+[I]/K’我
Just like the Michealis-Menten equation, this equation can be rearranged to fit a double-reciprocal plot:
1/v0= α’/V最大限度+ Km•α/V最大限度•1/[S]
如果α> 1和α'> 1,则混合抑制作用;为了竞争性抑制,α’= 1;对于非竞争性抑制,α= 1。因此,对于3种不同类型的抑制,获得了3个不同的方程,ALineWeaver-Burk动力学数据的图可以揭示抑制剂执行的抑制类型(见图1.b,1.c和1.d)[1,2]。

Figure 1:图1.A;总体酶促反应和酶抑制机制的扩展。图1B,C和D;线条框架框图显示了3种主要的抑制类型。如果Y间隔是相同的,但是斜率有所不同,则抑制剂具有竞争力。如果斜率和Y间接率都不同,则混合了抑制剂。如果斜率相同,但是y间接率有所不同,则抑制剂是毫无竞争的。
酶酒精脱氢酶is not completely specific for ethanol; it also catalyzes the formation of aldehydes from other alcohols. One of these alcohols is methanol, which is metabolized into formaldehyde and other toxic compounds that can cause blindness or death [3]. Methanol poisoning is quite common, and can be caused by the ingestion of homemade alcohol. Methanol and ethanol are thus competitive substrates, and ethanol is actually used to prevent poising after the ingestion of methanol, because it inhibits ADH in catalyzing the oxidation of this compound [4].
See the following pages for details of how to calculate the kinetic parameters for different inhibitors:
Mixed/non-competitive inhibition
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