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. 2013 Jul 26;8(7):e69888. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069888

Table 2. Biochemical Properties of Bacterial Polysialyltransferases1.

Specific activity2 CMP-Neu5Ac Kinetics2
Enzyme GD3-FCHASE (mU/mg) GT3-FCHASE (mU/mg) Km (mM) Vmax (µmol/min/mg) Vmax/Km
PSTMh 1433.4±83.8 2670.8±92.1 1.1±0.05 1519.0±96.2 1380.9
PSTNm 939.6±222.2 1885.7±173.1 5.7±0.7 1318.5±40.3 251.9
PSTEc 322.1±56.1 225.5±50.3 4.9±0.7 800.4±112.4 162.4
1

Experiments were performed in triplicate (n = 3) with mean values and standard error reported.

2

Experiments were performed with enzymes from three separate purification batches in duplicate (n = 6) with mean values and standard error reported.