photosuicide inhibitor

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Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry:

photosuicide inhibitor

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a type of suicide inhibitor that, after reaction with an enzyme or other appropriate protein, is capable of being selectively photodecomposed to a highly reactive species that can irreversibly modify the protein in the neighbourhood of its active site.

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