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Why are certain drugs called enzyme inhibitors?

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Enzymes control all the human body functions at the ground state, and they contain multiple active sites that are substrate-specific and carry out the normal biochemical reactions. There are many drugs available that can block the active site interaction between enzyme and substrate. This eradicates the catalytic property of the enzyme, thus making the reactions slow. Therefore, these types of drugs called inhibitors.

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