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Pre-steady-state kinetic analysis of riboflavin synthase using a pentacyclic reaction intermediate as substrate.
Biological chemistry - 1 Feb 2005
Illarionov Boris, Haase Ilka, Fischer Markus, Bacher Adelbert, Schramek Nicholas
Abstract excerpt
Riboflavin synthase catalyses a mechanistically complex dismutation affording riboflavin and 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H )-pyrimidinedione from 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine. A pentacyclic adduct (compound 2 ) of two substrate molecules was used as substrate for pre-steady-state kinetic analysis. Whereas the wild-type enzyme catalyses the decomposition of compound 2 into a mixture of riboflavin and...
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