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The polyphosphate glucokinases can phosphorylate glucose to glucose 6-phosphate using polyphosphate as the substrate. ORF encodes a putative polyphosphate glucokinase in the filamentous heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium sp. PCC 7120. Here, ORF was heterologously expressed in , and its purified product was characterized. Enzyme activity assays revealed that All1371 is an active polyphosphate glucokinase that can phosphorylate both glucose and mannose in the presence of divalent cations . Unlike many other polyphosphate glucokinases, for which nucleoside triphosphates (e.g. ATP or GTP) act as phosphoryl group donors, All1371 required polyphosphate to confer its enzymic activity. The enzymic reaction catalysed by All1371 followed classical Michaelis–Menten kinetics, with  = 48.2 s at pH 7.5 and 28 °C and  = 1.76 µM and 0.118 mM for polyphosphate and glucose, respectively. Its reaction mechanism was identified as a particular multi-substrate mechanism called the ‘bi-bi ping-pong mechanism’. Bioinformatic analyses revealed numerous polyphosphate-dependent glucokinases in heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria. Viability of an sp. PCC 7120 mutant strain lacking was impaired under nitrogen-fixing conditions. GFP promoter studies indicate expression of under combined nitrogen deprivation. All1371 might play a substantial role in sp. PCC 7120 under these conditions.

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