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Kinetic isotope effects in the characterization of catalysis by protein tyrosine phosphatases.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Nov 2015
Hengge Alvan C
Abstract excerpt
Although thermodynamically favorable, the uncatalyzed hydrolysis of phosphate monoesters is extraordinarily slow, making phosphatases among the most catalytically efficient enzymes known. Protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are ubiquitous in biology, and kinetic isotope effects were one of the key mechanistic tools used to discern molecular details of their catalytic mechanism and the transition state for...
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