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Sigmoidal

S-shaped; descriptive of the appearance of a graph that shows dependence of rate on substrate concentration for a multimeric enzyme that is accelerated by binding of more than one substrate molecule; also descriptive of non-simple binding of ligands to a non-enzymic protein, e.g. oxygen binding to haemoglobin.

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