Tags: Enzyme.
Bisphosphoglycerate mutase (BPGM) is an enzyme unique to erythrocytes and placental cells. It is responsible for the catalytic synthesis of 23-Bisphosphoglycerate (23-BPG) from 13-bisphosphoglycerate. BPGM also has a mutase and a phosphatase function but these are much less active in contrast to its glycolitic cousin phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM) which favors these two functions but can also catalyze the synthesis of 23-BPG to a lesser extent.
