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allostery
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allostery [′a·lō‚stir·ē]
(biochemistry)
The property of an enzyme able to shift reversibly between an active and an inactive configuration.


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INTRODUCTION Allosteric regulation of enzyme activity is widely used by living cells to control diverse physiological processes [1,2].
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