1876 Rate - limiting Steps in Metabolic Pathways
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A method is proposed to detect whether a given enzyme catalyzes a rate-limiting step in a metabolic pathway. With the use of a range of concentrations of specific inhibitors of an enzyme, the finding of a biphasic response with an initial null effect indicates the non-rate-limiting nature of the enzyme. With this method, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is indicated to catalyze a rate-limiting step in lactate gluconeogenesis in hepatocytes from fasted rats.
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