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Metabolism and Enzymology

Substrate Specificity of Pyrophosphate:Fructose 6-Phosphate 1-Phosphotransferase from Potato Tuber

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, United Kingdom

The aim of this work was to establish the precise ionic form of the reactants used by pyrophosphate:fructose-6-phosphate phosphotransferase. The enzyme was purified to near-homogeneity from potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers. Changes in enzyme activity when the pH of the assay and the concentration of fructose 6-phosphate, pyrophosphate, and magnesium are varied independently indicate that fructose 6-phosphate^2– and MgP₂O₇^2– are the reacting species in the glycolytic direction. Analogous experiments with fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, inorganic phosphate, and magnesium demonstrate that the enzyme uses fructose 1,6-bisphosphate^4–, HPO₄^2–, and Mg²⁺ in the gluconeogenic direction. The ionic species used in the glycolytic direction are comparable with those required by bacterial ATP-dependent phosphofructokinase. This is consistent with the proposal that the active site of pyrophosphate:fructose-6-phosphate phosphotransferase in plants is equivalent to that of the bacterial phosphofructokinase (SM Carlisle et al. [1990] J Biol Chem 265: 18366-18371).