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Urea denatures the enzyme as it disrupts the 3-D structure of the enzyme, this changes the shape of the enzymes' active site, thus meaning that the enzyme is unable to create an enzyme-substrate complex which then means that the reaction cannot occur thus the rate of the enzyme controlled reaction becomes very slow.

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