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What does allosteric mean?

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Adjective
  1. (biochemistry) That binds a compound on an inactive site and thus changes conformation in order to become either active or inactive
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Addex's competence in drug development and its expertise in allosteric modulation were recognised in a collaboration established in 2004 with Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Addex Pharmaceuticals discovers and develops allosteric modulators for human health.
All of the interacting proteins and protein enzymes involved in allosteric regulation are controlled by gene expression.
Although numerous allosteric enzymes were studied, much less information is available concerning the coordinated regulation of activities in multienzymatic complexes.
Frequently, an end-product of a metabolic pathway serves as an allosteric inhibitor on an earlier enzyme of the pathway.
These mechanisms include allosteric regulation, regulation by reversible covalent modification and regulation by control proteins such as calmodulin.

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