“…The autophosphorylation of NDPK isoforms of A. murale is not strange, given that roughly one-third of protein kinases are autophosphorylated (Newton et al, 1987). The autophosphorylation activity of R-NDPK-B was metal dependent, as are NDP-kinases from pig and Escherichia coli cells (Ohtsuki et al, 1984;Lascu et al, 1986). However, all the other investigated NDP-kinases, including S-NDPK-A and S-NDPK-B, were able to undergo autophosphorylation when the metal was absent (not shown).…”