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What are the regulatory and the catalytic subunits of the hetero-multimers
referred to in allosteric inhibition?</font> The protein has two different
kinds of subunits, one polypeptide is in charge of carrying out the catalytic
reaction, doing the catalysis.  The other is specialized to bind the allosteric
inhibitor (e.g., the end-product of a biosynthetic pathway) and in doing
so inhibits the catalytic polypeptide from&nbsp
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