Abstract
ALKALINE phosphomonoesterase is usually defined as an enzyme with a pH. optimum around 9.5 which splits monoesters of phosphoric acid. Relatively recently it was found that the comparable acid phosphatase can act as a phosphokinase (Axelrod1), and afterwards Meyerhoff2 showed that alkaline phosphatase also may act as a phosphokinase. The characteristic action of a phosphokinase is the ability to catalyse the transfer of phosphate from one organic molecule to another.
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DANIELLI, J. Alkaline Phosphatase and Contractile Proteins. Nature 168, 464–465 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168464b0
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