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Figure 3.
Figure 3. Characteristics of coexpressed WT+F12L. (a) Separation of two peaks of PBGS protein on Q-Sepharose; KCl gradient (red line), A(black line). Both pools showed PBGS activity at pH 7 ( ) and at pH 9 ( ). (b) The mobility of the two pools of WT+F12L relative to wild-type (WT) human PBGS and the F12L variant on native gel electrophoresis. (c) The pH-rate profiles for pool I ( ) and pool II ( ) after further purification on Sephacryl S300. (d) Determination of K[m] and V[max] values for the S300 purified pool I ( ) and pool II ( [280][glyph.gif] ) at pH 7 (black) and pH 9 (red). Dashed lines indicate the poor fits to standard hyperbolic saturation kinetics. Solid lines indicate the superior fit to a double hyperbola model where two forms of the enzyme are catalyzing the same reaction (see text and Table 1).