Ground-state destabilization in orotate phosphoribosyltransferases by binding isotope effects.
Zhang Y, Schramm VL.
Zhang Y, et al.
Biochemistry. 2011 May 31;50(21):4813-8. doi: 10.1021/bi200638x. Epub 2011 May 6.
Biochemistry. 2011.
PMID: 21526795
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Orotate phosphoribosyltransferases (OPRTs) form and break the N-ribosidic bond to pyrimidines by way of ribocation-like transition states (TSs) and therefore exhibit large alpha-secondary 1'-(3)H k(cat)/K(m) kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) [Zhang, Y., and Schramm, V. …
Orotate phosphoribosyltransferases (OPRTs) form and break the N-ribosidic bond to pyrimidines by way of ribocation-like transition states (T …