IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 5.4.2.1

Accepted name: phosphoglycerate mutase

Reaction: 2-phospho-D-glycerate = 3-phospho-D-glycerate

Other name(s): phosphoglycerate phosphomutase; phosphoglyceromutase; glycerate phosphomutase (diphosphoglycerate cofactor); monophosphoglycerate mutase; monophosphoglyceromutase; diphosphoglycomutase; diphosphoglycerate mutase; bisphosphoglyceromutase; GriP mutase; MPGM; PGA mutase; PGAM-i; PGAM; PGAM-d; PGM

Systematic name: D-phosphoglycerate 2,3-phosphomutase

Comments: The enzymes from mammals and from yeast are phosphorylated by (2R)-2,3-bis-phosphoglycerate, which is also an intermediate (see introduction to section EC 5.4.2). With the rabbit muscle enzyme, dissociation of bisphosphate from the enzyme is much slower than the overall isomerization. These enzymes also catalyse, slowly, the reactions of EC 5.4.2.4 bisphosphoglycerate mutase; they were formerly listed as EC 2.7.5.3. Enzymes from wheat, rice, insects and some fungi, however, have maximum activity in the absence of 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate, and were formerly listed under the present number as phosphoglycerate phosphomutase.

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, GTD, KEGG, Metacyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 9032-62-6

References:

1. Grisolia, S. Phosphoglyceric acid mutase. Methods Enzymol. 5 (1962) 236-242.

2. Ray, W.J., Jr. and Peck, E.J., Jr. Phosphomutases, in Boyer, P.D. (Ed.), The Enzymes, 3rd edn., vol. 6, Academic Press, New York , 1972, pp. 407-477.

3. Rose, Z.B. The enzymology of 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate. Adv. Enzymol. Relat. Areas Mol. Biol. 51 (1980) 211-253. [PMID: 6255773]

[EC 5.4.2.1 created 1961 (EC 2.7.5.3 created 1961, incorporated 1984)]


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