“…The analogues of 3-phosphoglycerate used in the present study are isosteric with the natural substrate, and involve only the replacement of -O-PO3H2 either by -CH2-PO3H, or by -CH2-As03H,. These compounds have previously been shown to be substrates of phosphoglycerate kinase (Dixon & Sparkes, 1974;Orr & Knowles, 1974;Adams et al, 1983). The effect of 3-arsono-2-(arsonomethyl)propanoic acid, (H203As-CHR-),CH-CO,H, was also investigated, although this compound is not an isosteric analogue of the natural substrates and effectors of these enzymes; nevertheless parts of its molecule are isosteric with 2-phosphoglycerate and 2,3bisphosphoglycerate, and also with 2-phosphoglycollate, which is an inhibitor of yeast phosphoglycerate mutase, as reviewed by Rose (1980).…”