Competitive inhibition

Competitive inhibition

Competitive inhibition is a form of enzyme inhibition where binding of the inhibitor to the active site on the enzyme prevents binding of the substrate and vice versa.

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Mechanism

Diagram showing competitive inhibition

In competitive inhibition, at any given moment, the enzyme may be bound to the inhibitor, the substrate, or neither, but it cannot bind both at the same time.

In virtually every case, competitive inhibitors bind in the same binding site as the substrate, but same-site binding is not a requirement. A competitive inhibitor could bind to an allosteric site of the free enzyme and prevent substrate binding, as long as does not bind to the allosteric site when the substrate is bound.

In competitive inhibition, the maximum velocity (Vmax ) of the reaction is unchanged, while the apparent affinity of the substrate to the binding site is decreased (the Kd dissociation constant is apparently increased). The change in Km (Michaelis-Menten constant) is parallel to the alteration in Kd. Any given competitive inhibitor concentration can be overcome by increasing the substrate concentration in which case the substrate will outcompete the inhibitor in binding to the enzyme.

Competitive inhibition can also be allosteric, as long as the inhibitor and the substrate cannot bind the enzyme at the same time.
Another possible mechanism for allosteric competitive inhibition.

Equation

Competitive inhibition increases the apparent value of the Michaelis-Menten constant, K^\text{app}_m, such that initial rate of reaction, V0, is given by

 V_0 = \frac{V_\max[S]}{K^\text{app}_m + [S]}

where K^\text{app}_m=K_m(1+[I]/K_i), Ki is the inhibitor's dissociation constant and [I] is the inhibitor concentration.

Vmax  remains the same because the presence of the inhibitor can be overcome by higher substrate concentrations. K^\text{app}_m, the substrate concentration that is needed to reach Vmax  / 2, increases with the presence of a competitive inhibitor. This is because the concentration of substrate needed to reach Vmax  with an inhibitor is greater than the concentration of substrate needed to reach Vmax  without an inhibitor.

Derivation

In the simplest case of a single-substrate enzyme obeying Michaelis-Menten kinetics, the typical scheme

 
E + S \, \overset{k_1}\underset{k_{-1}} \rightleftharpoons \, ES \, \overset{k_2} {\longrightarrow} \, E + P

is modified to include binding of the inhibitor to the free enzyme:

 
EI + S \, \overset{k_{-3}}\underset{k_3} \rightleftharpoons \, E + S + I \, \overset{k_1}\underset{k_{-1}} \rightleftharpoons \, ES + I \, \overset{k_2} {\longrightarrow} \, E + P + I

Note that the inhibitor does not bind to the ES complex and the substrate does not bind to the EI complex. It is generally assumed that this behavior is indicative of both compounds binding at the same site, but that is not strictly necessary. As with the derivation of the Michaelis-Menten equation, assume that the system is at steady-state, i.e. the concentration of each of the enzyme species is not changing.

\frac{d[E]}{dt} = \frac{d[ES]}{dt} = \frac{d[EI]}{dt} = 0.

Furthermore, the known total enzyme concentration is [E]0 = [E] + [ES] + [EI], and the velocity is measured under conditions in which the substrate and inhibitor concentrations do not change substantially and an insignificant amount of product has accumulated.

We can therefore set up a system of equations:

 [E]_0 = [E] + [ES] + [EI]\,\!

 

 

 

 

(1)

 \frac{d[E]}{dt} = 0 = -k_1[E][S] + k_{-1}[ES] + k_2[ES] -k_3[E][I] + k_{-3}[EI]

 

 

 

 

(2)

 \frac{d[ES]}{dt} = 0 = k_1[E][S] - k_{-1}[ES] - k_2[ES]

 

 

 

 

(3)

 \frac{d[EI]}{dt} = 0 = k_3[E][I] - k_{-3}[EI]

 

 

 

 

(4)

where [S], [I] and [E]0 are known. The initial velocity is defined as V0 = d[P] / dt = k2[ES], so we need to define the unknown [ES] in terms of the knowns [S], [I] and [E]0.

From equation (3), we can define E in terms of ES by rearranging to

 k_1[E][S]=(k_{-1}+k_2)[ES] \,\!

Dividing by k1[S] gives

 [E] = \frac{(k_{-1}+k_2)[ES]}{k_1[S]}

As in the derivation of the Michaelis-Menten equation, the term (k − 1 + k2) / k1 can be replaced by the macroscopic rate constant Km:

 [E] = \frac{K_m[ES]}{[S]}

 

 

 

 

(5)

Substituting equation (5) into equation (4), we have

 0 = \frac{k_3[I]K_m[ES]}{[S]} - k_{-3}[EI]

Rearranging, we find that

 [EI] = \frac{K_m k_3[I][ES]}{k_{-3}[S]}

At this point, we can define the dissociation constant for the inhibitor as Ki = k − 3 / k3, giving

 [EI] = \frac{K_m[I][ES]}{K_i[S]}

 

 

 

 

(6)

At this point, substitute equation (5) and equation (6) into equation (1):

 [E]_0 = \frac{K_m[ES]}{[S]} + [ES] + \frac{K_m[I][ES]}{K_i[S]}

Rearranging to solve for ES, we find

 [E]_0 = [ES] \left ( \frac{K_m}{[S]} + 1 + \frac{K_m[I]}{K_i[S]} \right )= [ES] \frac{K_m K_i + K_i[S] + K_m[I]}{K_i[S]}

 [ES] = \frac{K_i [S][E]_0}{K_m K_i + K_i[S] + K_m[I]}

 

 

 

 

(7)

Returning to our expression for V0, we now have:

\begin{align}
V_0 & = k_2[ES] = \frac{k_2 K_i [S][E]_0}{K_m K_i + K_i[S] + K_m[I]} \\
& = \frac{k_2 [E]_0 [S]}{K_m + [S] + K_m\frac{[I]}{K_i}}
\end{align}

Since the velocity is maximal when all the enzyme is bound as the enzyme-substrate complex, Vmax  = k2[E]0. Replacing and combining terms finally yields the conventional form:

 V_0 = \frac{V_\max[S]}{K_m(1 + \frac{[I]}{K_i}) + [S]}

 

 

 

 

(8)

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