Mechanism
Although not much is known about the mechanism by which choline kinase reacts, the recent advancement in the elucidation of the structure of the enzyme has provided scientists with much more insight than they had previously.Since the structure of CK is very similar to that of the eukaryotic protein kinase family,the location of ATP and choline binding pockets have been proposed. These are shown in the figures below.
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