If You Were Attempting to Design a New Drug for the Treatment

question 55

Multiple Choice

If you were attempting to design a new drug for the treatment of a disease by interfering with enzyme activity in the disease-causing organism, which type of inhibitor would likely be the MOST effective?

• A) a transition-state analog that is an irreversible inhibitor
• B) a substrate analog that is a competitive inhibitor
• C) a transition-state analog that is a competitive inhibitor
• D) a product analog that is an uncompetitive inhibitor
• E) a substrate analog that is a mixed inhibitor

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