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#Question id: 192


What is the role of the magnesium ion in kinases that require the magnesium-ATP complex to donate phosphoryl groups?

#XL - T Zoology
  1. maintain the configuration of the holoenzyme

  2. shield the charged phosphate groups of ATP
  3. produce an electrophilic attack on the substrate

  4. promote ionization of bound water