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Activation of brain hexokinase by magnesium ions and by magnesium ion--adenosine triphosphate complex.


ABSTRACT: 1. An alternative explanation for the kinetic data obtained by Bachelard (1971) for the brain hexokinase reaction is presented. 2. Apparently sigmoidal saturation curves for MgATP(2-) based upon Bachelard's (1971) studies can be corrected to hyperbolic curves by use of a stability constant for MgATP(2-) complex formation. 3. A number of other effects related to the concentration-dependent stability of the MgATP(2-) complex and to the presence of the inhibitory free uncomplexed ATP(4-) concentration are also explained in terms of a non-allosteric role for either Mg(2+) or MgATP(2-) fully consistent with a number of previous reports on this enzyme. 4. A brief discussion of the validity of Hill plots in studies of multisubstrate co-operative enzymes is presented. 5. A simple model is presented that demonstrates how enzymes obeying Michaelis-Menten kinetics can demonstrate sigmoidal velocity responses if the true substrate of the reaction is the metal-substrate complex.

SUBMITTER: Purich DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1174301 | biostudies-other | 1972 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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