Medical Dictionary

heterotropic

adj het·ero·tro·pic \-ˈtrō-pik\

Medical Definition of HETEROTROPIC

:  characterized by enzyme activity in which the substrate binds to the enzyme at only one site and a different molecule modifies the reaction by binding to an allosteric site <heterotropic interactions>—compare homotropic

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