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Explain the role of allosteric site in enzyme inhibition?

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Some drugs bind to the enzyme to inhibit its natural functioning, but the mechanism followed may differ in the drugs.  Sometimes instead of the active site, the drugs bind to the second site known as the allosteric site that results in changing the shape of the active site. This change makes the active site unrecognizable to the substrate; hence no bonding can take place. This is a rather permanent approach if the attachment is by covalent bond formation, as it eradicates the affinity between the site and its substrate. To overcome this situation, sometimes the body generates a completely new enzyme and discards the previous one.

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