This document discusses different types of enzyme inhibition including reversible and irreversible inhibition. Reversible inhibition includes competitive, uncompetitive, non-competitive, mixed, partial, substrate and allosteric inhibition. Competitive inhibitors compete with the substrate for the active site, while uncompetitive inhibitors bind only to the enzyme-substrate complex. Non-competitive inhibitors bind at a site other than the active site. Irreversible inhibitors form covalent or non-covalent bonds that permanently inactivate the enzyme. Understanding inhibition is important as many drugs and toxins function through inhibiting enzymes.