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Competitive inhibition: Vmax stays, Km rises

Biology · Biochemistry ⁨8⁩ views

Competitive inhibitors fight the substrate for the same site. Apparent Km gets larger; Vmax stays the same if enough substrate can still flood the site. On a Lineweaver–Burk plot the lines share the vertical intercept.

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