title: Phosphoenolpyruvate synthetase and pyruvate, orthophosphate dikinase: stereochemical consequences at both the beta-phospho and gamma-phospho groups of ATP.
abstract: [(R)-16O,17O,18O]Phosphoenolpyruvate and adenosine 5'-O-[(gamma S)-beta gamma-17O,gamma-17O,18O](3-thiotriphosphate) have been synthesized and used to determine the stereochemical course of the several displacements at phosphorus catalyzed by phosphoenolpyruvate synthetase and by pyruvate, orthophosphate dikinase, two enzymes that catalyze the formation of phosphoenolpyruvate from pyruvate and ATP. The catalytic mechanisms for each of these enzymes are believed to involve both phospho- and pyrophospho-enzyme intermediates. The stereochemical results are entirely in accord with these pathways: the beta-phospho group of ATP suffers overall retention of configuration that is presumably the consequence of two displacements with inversion, and the gamma-phospho group of ATP gamma S suffers inversion of configuration that is most probably the consequence of a single displacement at this center.
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Knowles
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000378:metabolism*; D003013:Clostridium / Q000201:enzymology; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology; D007553:Isotope Labeling / Q000379:methods; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D010770:Phosphotransferases / Q000378:metabolism*; D017866:Phosphotransferases (Paired Acceptors); D011772:Pyruvate, Orthophosphate Dikinase / Q000378:metabolism*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D010770:Phosphotransferases; D017866:Phosphotransferases (Paired Acceptors); D011772:Pyruvate, Orthophosphate Dikinase; C022509:pyruvate, water dikinase