Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Single-molecule theory of enzymatic inhibition

  • Tal Robin,
  • Shlomi Reuveni,
  • Michael Urbakh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02995-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Single molecule approaches demonstrated that enzymatic catalysis is stochastic which could lead to deviations from classical predictions. Here authors rebuild the theory of enzymatic inhibition to show that stochastic fluctuations on the single enzyme level could make inhibitors act as activators.