Abstract
Effects of the substrate and the coenzyme on the crystalline yeast phosphoglyceric acid mutase activity have been investigated. Lineweaver-Burk plots at different concentrations of the substrate (d-3-phosphoglyceric acid: 3×10−7 to 8×10−3m) and the coenzyme (d-2, 3-diphosphoglyceric acid: 8×10−7 to 10−5m) change in such a way to indicate the involvement of an enzyme-substrate-coenzyme ternary complex as an active intermediate in the enzymic reaction process. It is concluded that the reaction catalyzed by the yeast enzyme follows the sequential pathway and that a phosphorylated enzyme does not participate as an obligatory intermediate in the reaction mechanism, if it occurs. Kinetic studies indicate Km values of 6×10−4m for d-3-phosphoglyceric acid and 8×10−7m for d-2, 3-diphosphoglyceric acid. The substrate is a competitive inhibitor of the coenzyme with a Ksi (inhibition constant) of 3.2×10−3m. The coenzyme inhibition is not observed at concentration tested. A kinetic treatment to determine the mechanism...
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