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| | Allosteric regulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Effectors that enhance the protein's activity are referred to as allosteric activators, while those that decrease the protein's activation are called allosteric inhibitors. |
 | | The term allostery comes from the Greek allos, "other", and stereos, "shape", referring to the regulatory site of an allosteric protein being separate from its active site. |
 | | The concerted model of allostery, also referred to as the symmetry model or MWC model, postulates that enzyme subunits are connected in such a way that a conformational change in one subunit is necessarily conferred to all other subunits. |
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