Abstract
In Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase and fructose 1,6-bisphosphate phosphatase were studied, which could not be detected in previous investigations. Aldolase appeared to be a class I enzyme. Enzyme activity was only detectable in direction of aldol condensation in presence of Mg2+ and under anaerobic conditions. It was stimulated by dithioerythritol. The regulatory properties of the hexose bisphosphate phosphatase differed in many ways from those of the enzyme from other organisms.
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Fuchs, G., Winter, H., Steiner, I. et al. Enzymes of gluconeogenesis in the autotroph Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum . Arch. Microbiol. 136, 160–162 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00404793
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