You Are Studying the Enzyme Kinetics of Enzymes in the TCA

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Essay

You are studying the enzyme kinetics of enzymes in the TCA cycle.You add a molecule to the mixture that appears to act as a competitive inhibitor of one of the enzymes.At first,you cannot tell which enzyme is inhibited,but you can tell that it is bound to the inner mitochondrial membrane.Can you guess which TCA enzyme you have inhibited and how do you know?

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