enzyme activator

Enzyme activators are molecules that bind to enzymes and increase their activity.

The opposite of an enzyme inhibitor is called an enzyme activator.

The name is based on the use of an enzyme activator (EA) as part of the detection.

Enzyme inhibitors are molecules that reduce or abolish enzyme activity, while enzyme activators are molecules that increase the catalytic rate of enzymes.

An example of an enzyme activator working in this way is fructose 2,6-bisphosphate, which activates phosphofructokinase 1 and increases the rate of glycolysis in response to the hormone insulin.

Not all molecules that bind to enzymes are inhibitors; enzyme activators bind to enzymes and increase their enzymatic activity, while enzyme substrates bind and are converted to products in the normal catalytic cycle of the enzyme.