File talk:Allosteric competitive inhibition 3.svg

This is a very nice image, but according to the wikipedia articles on competitive inhibition and non-competitive inhibition, it appears to depict allosteric competitive inhibition. It is also very similar to the related file "Allosteric comp inhib 2.svg" (included below) which I believe is more correctly named. Perhaps the name of this file should be changed. Mcstrother (talk) 18:50, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Possible improvement?

The one thing that I find confusing about this image is that it doesn't explicitly show what happens to the inhibitor binding site when the substrate is bound. The key feature of a competitive inhibitor, according to the article, is that binding of the inhibitor prevents binding of the substrate and vice versa, so it would be nice to show the vice versa part to make it clearer that you can't ever have both substrate and inhibitor bound to the enzyme. Mcstrother (talk) 02:43, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

I guess the main thing that this improvement would achieve is to help distinguish this from negative modulation.Mcstrother (talk) 02:54, 2 April 2012 (UTC)