“…Several workers (Tanaka et Vol. 126 al., 1965;Passeron et al, 1967;Tanaka et al, 1967a;Taylor & Bailey, 1967;Susor & Rutter, 1968) have shown the existence in liver of at least two distinct activities, one apparently similar to, although not identical with (Jimenez de Asua et al, 1971), muscle 'M-type' pyruvate kinase, the other exhibiting both a sigmoid rate response towards the substrate phosphoenolpyruvate and a sensitivity to activation by fructose 1,6-diphosphate (Tanaka et al, 1967b;Taylor & Bailey, 1967;Carminatti et al, 1968). The presence of the latter type of pyruvate kinase in tissues has been correlated with the presence of an active dicarboxylate shuttle and gluconeogenic or glyceroneogenic potential (Pogson, 1968a;Llorente et al, 1970).…”