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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Drug Discov Technol. 2015;11(4):279–292. doi: 10.2174/1570163812666150120154701

Table 2.

Comparison of the kinetic parameters governing the interaction of PheRS with its substrates.

PheRS tRNA Phe ATP
KM
(μM)
kcat
(s−1)
kcat/KM
(s−1, μM−1)
KM
(μM)
kcat
(s−1)
kcat/KM
(s−1, μM−1)
KM
(μM)
kcat
(s−1)
kcat/KM
(s−1, μM−1)
P. aeruginosa 1.2 0.74 0.64 48 16.2 0.34 200 13.2 0.066
S. pneumoniae 0.94 0.93 1.0 21 22.5 1.1 225 15.5 0.070