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The heat at 100C disrupts the ionic bonds, hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic interactions between structural amino acids that make up the enzyme, causing it to be denatured and a loss of 3D conformation and loss of active site. The active site is no longer complementary in shape to the substrate molecules, hence there is no binding of substrate to enzyme.

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