most university professors aren't there to teach. That's just something that is required, while the professors are there do actually do other things like research. So teaching isn't what they necessarily signed up for, but have to do so they can do their actual job (research).

Amen to that!

Awesome! Best of luck with pharmacy school, I dont know how you guys do it with remembering all those meds! :)

james fancourt Thats awesome, thanks a ton James :) Appreciate that.

james fancourt Thanks! I try to tie them all in, so it really helps to watch them in a consecutive order :)

Yes, as uncompetitive inhibitors lower the Km of the enzymes in the solution.

Vmax stays the same in competitive inhibition because increasing the concentration of substrate will eventually lead to the Vmax as a higher increase of substrate outcompetes the competitive inhibitor. Since the substrate (at high concentration) outcompetes the inhibitor, the active sites of all the enzymes in the solution will virtually be sautrated with the substrate, not the inhibitor. Thus, Vmax can still be attained. Unlike competitive inhibition, uncompetitive inhibition causes a decrease in Vmax. Because the enzyme-substrate-inhibitor (ESI) complex cannot catalyze the reaction (synthesize products), and cannot be rescued by increasing substrate, the Vmax is lowered. So essentially the uncompetitive inhibitor is decreasing the overall number of active enzyme molecules in the solution.