Glucose-6-phosphate isomerase efficiency

Glucose-6-phosphate isomerase efficiency of 692 turnover number of 692... 

The reaction mechanism is similar to the reaction promoted by phosphohexose isomerase in step (2) of glycolysis (Fig. 14-4). After the triose phosphate isomerase reaction, C-1, C-2, and C-3 of the starting glucose are chemically indistinguishable from C-6, C-5, and C-4, respectively (Fig. 14-6), setting up the efficient metabolism of the entire six-carbon glucose molecule. 

Triose phosphate isomerase, TIM, as a nearly-diffusion-limited enzyme (Ch. 2, Section 2.2.3), catalyzes the equilibration of GAP and DHAP very efficiently. However, equilibrium concentrations of GAP were metabolized to pyruvate and further to ethanol or acetate, so the stoichiometric yield on glucose to 1,3-PPD of 42.5% was lower than the target of 50%. Thus, TIM was cloned out to prevent equilibration between the desired DHAP and the undesired side-product GAP, which successfully increased the yield beyond the minimum target... 

Efficient utilization of the fructose requires phosphorylation of the glyceraldehyde. Tracer experiments show that the carbon 1 of fructose appears as both carbons 1 and 6 of glucose. This is the result of triose phosphate isomerization followed by (conventional) aldolase condensation to hexose diphosphate. The conversion of fructose diphosphate to glucose-6-phosphate requires a phosphatase and an isomerase, as discussed in the pentose phosphate pathway. 

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