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. 1973 Feb;131(2):287–301. doi: 10.1042/bj1310287

Kinetic studies on the regulation of rabbit liver pyruvate kinase

M G Irving 1, J F Williams 1
PMCID: PMC1177469  PMID: 4722439

Abstract

Two kinetically distinct forms of pyruvate kinase (EC 2.7.1.40) were isolated from rabbit liver by using differential ammonium sulphate fractionation. The L or liver form, which is allosterically activated by fructose 1,6-diphosphate, was partially purified by DEAE-cellulose chromatography to give a maximum specific activity of 20 units/mg. The L form was allosterically activated by K+ and optimum activity was recorded with 30mm-K+, 4mm-MgADP−, with a MgADP−/ADP2− ratio of 50:1, but inhibition occurred with K+ concentrations in excess of 60mm. No inhibition occurred with either ATP or GTP when excess of Mg2+ was added to counteract chelation by these ligands. Alanine (2.5mm) caused 50% inhibition at low concentrations of phosphoenolpyruvate (0.15mm). The homotropic effector, phosphoenolpyruvate, exhibited a complex allosteric pattern (nH=2.5), and negative co-operative interactions were observed in the presence of low concentrations of this substrate. The degree of this co-operative interaction was pH-dependent, with the Hill coefficient increasing from 1.1 to 3.2 as the pH was raised from 6.5 to 8.0. Fructose 1,6-diphosphate interfered with the activation by univalent ions, markedly decreased the apparent Km for phosphoenolpyruvate from 1.2mm to 0.2mm, and transformed the phosphoenolpyruvate saturation curve into a hyperbola. Concentrations of fructose 1,6-diphosphate in excess of 0.5mm inhibited this stimulated reaction. The M or muscle-type form of the enzyme was not activated by fructose 1,6-diphosphate and gave a maximum specific activity of 0.3 unit/mg. A Michaelis–Menten response was obtained when phosphoenolpyruvate was the variable substrate (Km=0.125mm), and this form was inhibited by ATP, as well as alanine, even in the presence of excess of Mg2+.

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