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Abstract
Adenosine 5'[gamma(S)-16O, 17O, 18O]triphosphate has been synthesized and used to determine the stereochemical course of phosphoryl transfer catalysed by yeast hexokinase. The chirality at phosphorus of the D-glucose 6-[16O,17O,18O]phosphate formed was analysed, after cyclization and methylation, by 31P n.m.r. spectroscopy. The phosphoryl transfer was found to occur with inversion of configuration, with a stereoselectivity in excess of 94%. The simplest interpretation of this result is that the phosphoryl group is transferred between substrates in the enzyme-substrate ternary complex by an 'in line' mechanism.Entities:
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Year: 1981 PMID: 7039616 PMCID: PMC1163354 DOI: 10.1042/bj1990227
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem J ISSN: 0264-6021 Impact factor: 3.857