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feedback inhibition

[′fēd‚bak ‚in·ə‚bish·ən]
(biochemistry)
A cellular control mechanism by which the end product of a series of metabolic reactions inhibits the activity of the first enzyme in the sequence. Also known as allosteric control.
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Other compounds that may cause feedback inhibition of nitrogenase activity in nodules are amino acids, such as asparagine (Oti-boateng and Silsbury, 1993; Bacanamwo and Harper, 1997; Serraj et al., 1999b;) or glutamine (Neo and Layzell, 1997).
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