Kinetic Analysis of the Hydrolysis of Pentose-1-Phosphates Through Apparent Nucleoside Phosphorolysis Equilibrium Shifts

Abstract

<div>Ask what an equilibrium can do for you:</div><div>Hydrolysis of pentose-1-phosphates leads to an apparent increase of the equilibrium conversion in nucleoside phosphorolysis reactions. This information can be leveraged via equilibrium thermodynamics to determine the hydrolysis kinetics of in situ generated sugar phosphates, which are known to be elusive and difficult to quantify.<br></div>