Table 3. Apparent steady-state kinetic constants of wild-type and mutant POx with D-glucose as electron donor (100 mM) and 1,4-BQ (varied from 0.01–0.5 mM) as electron acceptor.
1,4-BQ-mediated dehydrogenase activity | ||||
Variant | K m (mM) | k cat (s−1) | k cat/K m (mM−1 s−1) | Relative k cat/K m (%) |
WT | 0.24±0.03* | 152±6* | 632±83* | 100 |
T166R | 0.14±0.02 | 166±11 | 1213±191 | 192 |
Q448H | 0.057±0.007 | 12±1 | 203±30 | 32 |
L545C | 0.042±0.006 | 110±4 | 2608±384 | 413 |
L547R | 0.018±0.003 | 26±1 | 1465±251 | 232 |
N593C | 0.14±0.02 | 4.6±0.2 | 32±5 | 5.1 |
*data from reference [47].