Direct determination of creatine kinase equilibrium constants with creatine or cyclocreatine as substrate

P LoPresti, M Cohn - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Protein Structure …, 1989 - Elsevier
The equilibrium constants of two reactions catalyzed by rabbit muscle creatine kinase with
creatine or cyclocreatine as substrate were determined by 31 P-NMR. The value of the
equilibrium constant with creatine as substrate was 172· 10 7 M− 1 in agreement with
previous work (Veech, RL, Lawson, JWR, Cornell, W. and Krebs, HA (1979) J. Biol. Chem.
254, 6538–6547). The value with cyclocreatine was 5.62· 10 7 M− 1 and the ratio of the two
constants is 30.6. It was possible to determine the ratio of the two equilibrium constants in a …