Figure 14
Proposed mechanism of the reaction catalyzed by FGD. An unknown base (:B) takes a proton from G6P, allowing hydride transfer to the F420 cofactor and oxidation of glucose 6-phosphate to 6-phosphogluconolactone; Glu109 then releases a proton to form F420H2 (for details, see Oyugi et al., 2016). |