title: Presteady state kinetic analysis of riboflavin synthase.
abstract: Riboflavin synthase catalyzes a mechanistically complex dismutation affording riboflavin and 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione from 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine. The kinetics of the enzyme from Escherichia coli were studied under single turnover conditions. Stopped flow as well as quenched flow experiments documented the transient formation of a pentacyclic reaction intermediate. No other transient species were sufficiently populated to allow detection. The data are best described by a sequence of one second order and one first order reaction.
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D012256:Riboflavin / Q000737:chemistry; D012258:Riboflavin Synthase / Q000737:chemistry*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D012258:Riboflavin Synthase; D012256:Riboflavin