Some elements exist naturally as molecules. For example, hydrogen and oxygen exist as two-atom molecules.

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Uncompetitive inhibitors bind only to the enzyme-substrate complex and not to the free enzyme. 

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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.