The structure of pyruvate kinase from Leishmania mexicana reveals details of the allosteric transition and unusual effector specificity.
Rigden, D.J., Phillips, S.E., Michels, P.A., Fothergill-Gilmore, L.A.(1999) J Mol Biol 291: 615-635
- PubMed: 10448041 
- DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2918
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1PKL - PubMed Abstract: 
Glycolysis occupies a central role in cellular metabolism, and is of particular importance for the catabolic production of ATP in protozoan parasites such as Leishmania and Trypanosoma. In these organisms pyruvate kinase plays a key regulatory role, and is unique in responding to fructose 2,6-bisphosphate as allosteric activator ...