The adrenal cortex secretes three classes of steroid hormones:

Glucocorticoids

Mineralocorticoids

Androgens

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In neither case does the inhibitor compete with the substrate for the same binding site, so the inhibition cannot be overcome by increasing the substrate concentration.

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Substrate-binding could cause a conformational change to take place in the enzyme and reveal an inhibitor binding site, or the inhibitor could bind directly to the enzyme-bound substrate. 

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In the simplest possible model, simple linear non-competitive inhibition, the substrate does not affect inhibitor-binding. 

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Under these conditions, the reactions have an identical dissociation constant Ki , again called the inhibitor constant. 

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In the presence of a non-competitive inhibitor which will bind equally well to E or to ES- Vmax decreases but not Km