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Allostery vs Cooperativity - What's the difference?

allostery | cooperativity |

As nouns the difference between allostery and cooperativity

is that allostery is the quality of being allosteric while cooperativity is an interaction between the substrate binding sites of an allosteric enzyme in which binding at one site increases or decreases binding at another.

allostery

English

Noun

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  • The quality of being allosteric

    • Synonyms

    * allosterism

    cooperativity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia cooperativity) (cooperativities)
  • (biochemistry) An interaction between the substrate binding sites of an allosteric enzyme in which binding at one site increases or decreases binding at another