In this paper, we describe an efficient procedure for the purification of yeast phosphofructokinase. This procedure eliminates any time delay and enables to obtain an enzyme with minimum proteolytic alterations. The molecular weights of the oligomeric enzyme and of its constitutive subunits were both evaluated by means of several independent methods. However, the accuracy of each measurement was not sufficient to discriminate between an hexameric and an octameric structure of the enzyme oligomer. On the other hand, crosslinking experiments demonstrated the octameric structure of yeast phosphofructokinase. Obviously, some methods of molecular weight determination have led to erroneous results. In particular, our experiments show that the reliability of molecular weight determinations performed by gel filtration of native proteins must be considered with caution.
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