... novo synthesis of PtdIns is most active. Thoroughenzymatic characterization of synthesis and exchange hasattemptedtounderstandifbothreactionsaremediatedby the same enzyme, but only one study has ... clear, for the first time, that a PtdIns synthase from Arabidopsis is able to catalyse both de novo synthesis of PtdIns and the exchange of the inositol moiety, but it is stilluncertain by what mechanism ... evaluation of net synthesis, one might wish to inhibit the exchange and one laboratory reported, to this end, that the addition of 5 mMEDTA was sufficient to abolish the exchange ability of PtdIns...