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Pyruvate kinase revisited: the activating effect of K+.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 11 Nov 2005
Oria-Hernández Jesús, Cabrera Nallely, Pérez-Montfort Ruy, Ramírez-Silva Leticia
Abstract excerpt
For more than 50 years, it has been known that K(+) is an essential activator of pyruvate kinase (Kachmar, J. F., and Boyer, P. D. (1953) J. Biol. Chem. 200, 669-683). However, the role of K(+) in the catalysis by pyruvate kinase has not been totally understood. Previous studies without K(+) showed that the affinity of ADP-Mg(2+) depends on the concentration of phosphoenolpyruvate, although the kinetics of the...
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