Method Description

Phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) catalyzes the phosphorylation of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to adenosine triphosphate (ATP) by conversion of 1,3-diphosphoglycerate (1,3-DPG) to 3,phosphoglyceric acid. In this assay, the reaction is driven in the reverse direction. The formation of 1,3-DPG is then measured through the glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase reaction as 1,3-DPG is converted to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate resulting in the oxidation of 1,4-dihydronicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) to NAD(+). The decrease in absorbance, which occurs as NADH is oxidized, is measured spectrophotometrically at 340 nm on an automated chemistry analyzer.(Beutler E: Red Cell Metabolism. A Manual of Biochemical Methods. 3rd ed. Grune and Stratton; 1984:53-55; van Solinge WW, van Wijk: Enzymes of the red blood cell. In: Rifai N, Horvath AR, Wittwer CT: eds. Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics. 6th ed. Elsevier; 2018:chap 30)