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SUBMITTER: Adams NB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4982103 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Adams Nathan B P NB Brindley Amanda A AA Hunter C Neil CN Reid James D JD
FEBS letters 20160602 12
In the first committed reaction of chlorophyll biosynthesis, magnesium chelatase couples ATP hydrolysis to the thermodynamically unfavorable Mg(2+) insertion into protoporphyrin IX (ΔG°' of circa 25-33 kJ·mol(-1) ). We explored the thermodynamic constraints on magnesium chelatase and demonstrate the effect of nucleotide hydrolysis on both the reaction kinetics and thermodynamics. The enzyme produces a significant rate enhancement (kcat /kuncat of 400 × 10(6) m) and a catalytic rate enhancement, ...[more]