Allosteric

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  • adjective. Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.
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  • adjective. That binds a compound on an inactive site and thus changes conformation in order to become either active or inactive
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    "Under the agreement, Addex will regain rights to intellectual property and know-how and can pursue the program independently. www.addexpharma.com discovers and develops an emerging class of small molecule drugs, called allosteric modulators, which have the potential to be more specific and confer significant therapeutic advantages over conventional "orthosteric" small molecule or biological drugs."
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