A patient who wanted to go skiing in the Rockies took a medication to combat altitude sickness. A graph of this medication’s mechanism of inhibition is shown. What type of inhibitor is this medication?
Correct Answer: Non-competitive
Description: In noncompetitive inhibition, the Km is not altered, whereas the Vmax is decreased. The drug used to treat altitude sickness is acetazolamide, which is a noncompetitive inhibitor of carbonic anhydrase. The graph is one of a pure noncompetitive inhibitor.
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