allosteric
Adjective. (context, biochemistry) That binds a compound on an inactive site and thus changes conformation in order to become either active or inactive.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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