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. 2010 Oct 4;107(42):17968–17973. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1007559107

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2.

The E. coli genes gstB and gshA provide resistance to bromoacetate. (A) Michaelis–Menten plot of GstB catalyzed conjugation of glutathione to bromoacetate under saturating glutathione. This plot yields a kcat value of 27 s-1 a Km value for bromoacetate of 5 mM and a second-order rate constant of 5.4 × 103 M-1 s-1. (B) Growth of gstB- and gshA- strains on LB-agar supplemented with bromoacetate (0.45 mM), iodoacetate (0.125 mM) or bromoacetamide (0.175 mM) compared to the parental strain (BW25113).