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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: Carbohydr Res. 2011 May 12;346(12):1576–1580. doi: 10.1016/j.carres.2011.05.005

Table 1.

Effect of divalent ions and EDTA on the activity of UDP(βS)-GlcNAc and UDP-GlcNAc. Numbers in parenthesis are standard deviations of three parallel experiments.

Cations (10 mM) Relative Activity (%)
UDP-GlcNAc
Relative Activity (%)
UDP(βS)-GlcNAc (2)
Mn2+ 100 100
Ca2+ 115.9 (11.2) 12.5 (1.33)
Mg2+ 98.6 (7.9) 92.6 (2.3)
Fe2+ 51.2 (2.2) 5.7 (0.98)
Mo2+ 35.5 (3.62) 21.7 (1.1)
Pd2+ 21.5 (2.2) 3.9 (0.55)
Co2+ 8.0 (0.32) 5.6 (1.28)
Cu2+ <1 <1
Hg2+ <1 <1
Ni2+ <1 <1
Zn2+ <1 <1
EDTA <1 <1