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How does the value of Vmax compare to Vmax app for the inhibited enzyme for: com

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Question

How does the value of Vmax compare to Vmax app for the inhibited enzyme for: competitive inhibition uncompetitive inhibition noncompetitive inhibition How does the value of Km compare to Km app for the inhibited enzyme for: competitive inhibition uncompetitive inhibition noncompetitive inhibition For each of the graphs above, draw a line that reflects a better inhibitor than the one depicted. How would diisopropylphosphofluoridate (DIPF, irreversible inhibitor) affect the apparent Km and Vmax of a sample of chymotrypsin?

Explanation / Answer

1.

a. Vmax = Vmax,inh

b. 1/Vmax < 1/Vmax,inh   so Vmax > Vmax,inh

c. 1/Vmax < 1/Vmax,inh   so Vmax > Vmax,inh

2. What you see on abscissa at left are the negative value of 1/Km.

Put them in symetrical positions on the right part of abscissa.

a. 1/Km > 1/Km,inh    so Km < Km,inh

b. 1/Km < 1/Km,inh    so Km>Km,inh

c. 1/Km > 1/Km,inh    so Km < Km,inh

3.

“Competitive” graph: draw a new line with a higher slope passing by the same intersecting point of the existing ones (it will have the same 1/Vmax).

“Uncompetitive” graph: draw a new parallel line above the existing one (+Inh).It will have the highest 1/Vmax).

“mixed” graph: draw a new line with a higher slope passing by the same intersecting point of the existing ones (it will have the highest 1/Vmax).

These are Lineweaver-Burke plots ( more theory here http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Biological_Chemistry/Catalysts/Enzymatic_Kinetics/Enzyme_Inhibition )

Note:

At questions 1,2 and 3 the inhibition is reversible.

4. If the inhibition is irreversible (DIPF is of this type) : Km remains the same, but Vmax is decreased by the presence of inhibitor (the concentration of Inh being lower than the enzyme concentration; if [DIPF] > [Chymotrypsine] , the activity is completely blocked).

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