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Botha FC, Small JG. Comparison of the Activities and Some Properties of Pyrophosphate and ATP Dependent Fructose-6-Phosphate 1-Phosphotransferases of Phaseolus vulgaris Seeds. Plant Physiol. 1987;83(4):772-7doi: 10.1104/pp.83.4.772.
Botha, F. C., & Small, J. G. (1987). Comparison of the Activities and Some Properties of Pyrophosphate and ATP Dependent Fructose-6-Phosphate 1-Phosphotransferases of Phaseolus vulgaris Seeds. Plant physiology, 83(4), 772-7. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.83.4.772
Botha, F C, and Small, J G. "Comparison of the Activities and Some Properties of Pyrophosphate and ATP Dependent Fructose-6-Phosphate 1-Phosphotransferases of Phaseolus vulgaris Seeds." Plant physiology vol. 83,4 (1987): 772-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.83.4.772
Botha FC, Small JG. Comparison of the Activities and Some Properties of Pyrophosphate and ATP Dependent Fructose-6-Phosphate 1-Phosphotransferases of Phaseolus vulgaris Seeds. Plant Physiol. 1987 Apr;83(4):772-7. doi: 10.1104/pp.83.4.772. PMID: 16665337; PMCID: PMC1056448.
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Plant Physiol. 1987 Apr;83(4):772-7. doi: 10.1104/pp.83.4.772.

Comparison of the Activities and Some Properties of Pyrophosphate and ATP Dependent Fructose-6-Phosphate 1-Phosphotransferases of Phaseolus vulgaris Seeds.

Plant physiology

F C Botha, J G Small

Affiliations

  1. Department of Botany, University of The Orange Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, Republic of South Africa.

PMID: 16665337 PMCID: PMC1056448 DOI: 10.1104/pp.83.4.772

Abstract

THE DISTRIBUTION OF PYROPHOSPHATE: fructose 6-phosphate phosphotransferase (PFP) and ATP: fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase (PFK) was studied in germinating bean (Phaseolus vulgaris cv Top Crop) seeds. In the cotyledons the PFP activity was comparable with that of PFK. However, in the plumule and radicle plus hypocotyl, PFP activity exceeds that of PFK. Approximately 70 to 90%, depending on the stage of germination, of the total PFP and PFK activities were present in the cotyledons. Highest specific activity of both enzymes, however, occurred in the radicle plus hypocotyl (64-90 nanomoles.min.milligram protein). Fractionation studies indicate that 40% of the total PFK activity was associated with the plastids while PFP is apparently confined to the cytoplasm. The cytosolic isozyme of PFK exhibits hyperbolic kinetics with respect to fructose 6-P and ATP with K(m) values of 320 and 46 micromolar, respectively. PFP also exhibits hyperbolic kinetics both in the presence and absence of the activator fructose-2,6-P(2). The activation is caused by lowering the K(m) for fructose 6-P from 18 to 1.1 millimolar and that for pyrophosphate (PPi) from 40 to 25 micromolar, respectively. Levels of fructose 2,6-P(2) and PPi in the seeds are sufficient to activate PFP and thereby enable a glycolytic role for PFP during germination. However, the fructose 6-P content appears to be well below the K(m) of PFP for this compound and would therefore preferentially bind to the catalytic site of PFK, which has a lower K(m) for fructose 6-P. The ATP content appears to be at saturating levels for PFK.

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