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Query: EC:2.7.1.1 (hexokinase)
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1. Human erythrocyte hexokinase (ADP:D-hexose 6-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.1) was purified 50 000--100 000-fold with a final specific activity of about 25--50 units/mg protein using gel-filtration, ion-exchange chromatography and affinity chromagraphy. 2. After isoelectrofocusing ofthe preparation one major protein band could be detected besides a minor band. THe isoelectric point of the major protein band was found to be 4.7. 3. After purification the enzyme could be stabilized in a medium containing inorganic phosphate, glucose, glycerol and mercaptoethanol. 4. The molecular weight was determined by gel-filtration and was found to be 132 000+/-8000. 5. The enzyme shows a broad pH optimum ranging from 7.0 to 8.4. 6. The kinetic behavior of the purified enzyme at 37 degrees C was somewhat different from the normal Michaelis-Menten kinetics due to its instability. The affinity constants were 0.048--0.080 mM for glucose and 0.57--1.0 mM for Mg-ATP. 7. The enzyme was specific for Mg- ATP as the nucleotide substrate. Mg-UTP, Mg-ITP,Mg-GTP and Mg-CTP were not converted to corresponding diphosphates. Several hexoses could be phosphorylated by the enzyme. Mannose could be phosphorylated at the same rate as glucose, although the affinity for the enzyme was lower (5m=0.60mM). Much lower rates and lower affinities were found with 2-deoxy-D-glucose (5m=1.0mM), D(+)-glucosamine (5m=4.5 mM) and fructose (5m=10 mM). N-acetyl-D-glucosamine , galactose andsorbose were not phosphorylated at all.
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PMID:Purification and some properties of human erythrocyte hexokinase. 95 36

Video microscopy of isolated axoplasm from the squid giant axon permits correlated quantitative analyses of membrane-bounded organelle transport both in the intact axoplasm and along individual microtubules. As a result, the effects of experimental manipulations on both anterograde and retrograde movements of membrane-bounded organelles can be evaluated under nearly physiological conditions. Since anterograde and retrograde fast axonal transport are similar but distinct cellular processes, a systematic biochemical analysis is important for a further understanding of the molecular mechanisms for each. In this series of experiments, we employed isolated axoplasm of the squid to define the nucleoside triphosphate specificity for bidirectional organelle motility in the axon. Perfusion of axoplasm with 2-20 mM ATP preserved optimal vesicle velocities in both the anterograde and retrograde directions. Organelle velocities decreased to less than 50% of optimal values when the axoplasm was perfused with 10-20 mM UTP, GTP, ITP, or CTP with simultaneous depletion of endogenous ATP with hexokinase. Under the same conditions, TTP and ATP-gamma-S were unable to support significant levels of transport. None of the NTPs tested had a differential effect on anterograde vs. retrograde movement of vesicles. Surprisingly, several inconsistencies were revealed when a comparison was made between these results and nucleoside triphosphate specificities that have been reported for putative organelle motors by using in vitro assays. These data may be used in conjunction with data from well-defined in vitro assays to develop models for the molecular mechanisms of axonal transport.
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PMID:Nucleotide specificity for the bidirectional transport of membrane-bounded organelles in isolated axoplasm. 169 15

ATP is known to be easily determined fluorometrically after it is utilized to produce the corresponding amount of NADPH by combined reactions of hexokinase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. We studied further whether nucleoside triphosphates other than ATP can be also determined in a similar manner if they were incubated for a longer period with an increased amount of hexokinase. It was shown that CTP, GTP, ITP, and UTP can be utilized to produce the corresponding amount of NADPH after an incubation of at least 60 min and that 0 to 50 nmols of these nucleotides were able to be determined fluorometrically.
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PMID:Determination of nucleoside triphosphates by use of combined reactions of hexokinase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. 181 Feb 51

When ATP, the normal phosphate donor for hexokinase D ('glucokinase'), is replaced by ITP, the positive co-operativity with respect to glucose disappears. This may be rationalized in relation to kinetic models for hexokinase D co-operativity, which assume that with the normal substrates the chemical reaction and subsequent release of products occur so rapidly that binding of substrates cannot approach equilibrium and is therefore not constrained by the thermodynamic requirement that the Hill coefficient for substrate binding cannot exceed the number of binding sites. ITP is a much poorer substrate than ATP, however: its Km value at high glucose concentrations is 24 times the value for ATP, whereas the value of the limiting rate V is decreased about 8-fold. Consequently it is no longer possible for the ternary complex to be converted into products rapidly enough to generate kinetic co-operativity. The negative co-operativity with respect to glucose observed in 2H2O with ATP as phosphate donor also disappears when ITP is used instead of ATP.
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PMID:Kinetics of hexokinase D ('glucokinase') with inosine triphosphate as phosphate donor. Loss of kinetic co-operativity with respect to glucose. 366 82

Addition of 0.4-25 microM extracellular ATP results in transient, dose-dependent increases in cytosolic free calcium measured in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. In cells incubated with 1 mM extracellular Ca2+, ATP induces a triphasic Ca2+ transient: an initial rapid increase (2-3 s), a second, slower phase of increase (60-90 s), and, finally, a gradual return to near resting [Ca2+]i (4-5 min). Several findings demonstrate that the initial, rapid phase of Ca2+ transient results from a mobilization of Ca2+ from a non-mitochondrial intracellular store, while the second, slow phase of increase is produced by enhanced influx of Ca2+ across the plasma membrane. Successive additions of extracellular ATP can elicit repetitive Ca2+ transients if the initially added ATP is removed either through the action of native ecto-ATPase activity or exogenous hexokinase. Other adenine nucleotides, including non-hydrolyzable ATP analogs, neither alter cytosolic [Ca2+] nor antagonize the ATP-induced effects. Conversely, other nucleotide triphosphates (ITP, UTP, and GTP) induce Ca2+ transients which are identical to those produced by ATP. A variety of experimental results indicate that these actions of ATP and other nucleotide triphosphates are not due to a generalized increase in plasma membrane permeability. The results suggest that, in these transformed cells, ATP may act in a manner similar to other Ca2+ mobilizing hormones and growth factors.
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PMID:Intracellular Ca2+ mobilization activated by extracellular ATP in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. 403 Jul 63

1. The substrate kinetic properties of cerebral hexokinases (mitochondrial and cytoplasmic) were studied at limiting concentrations of both glucose and MgATP(2-). Primary plots of the enzymic activity gave no evidence of a Ping Pong mechanism in three types of mitochondrial preparation tested (intact and osmotically disrupted mitochondria, and the purified mitochondrial enzyme), nor in the purified cytoplasmic preparation. 2. Secondary plots of intercepts from the primary plots (1/v versus 1/s) versus reciprocal of second substrate of the mitochondrial activity gave kinetic constants which differed from those obtained directly from the plots of 1/v versus 1/s or of s/v versus s, although the ratios of the derived constants were consistent. The kinetic constants obtained with the cytoplasmic enzyme from primary and secondary plots were consistent. 3. Deoxyglucose, as alternative substrate, inhibited cytoplasmic hexokinase by competition with glucose, but did not compete when MgATP(2-) was the substrate varied. The K(i) for deoxyglucose when glucose concentrations were varied was 0.25mm. 4. A range of ATP analogues was tested as potential substrates and inhibitors of hexokinase activity. GTP, ITP, CTP, UTP and betagamma-methylene-ATP did not act as substrates, nor did they cause significant inhibition. Deoxy-ATP proved to be almost as effective a substrate as ATP. AMP inhibited but did not act as substrate. 5. N-Acetyl-glucosamine inhibited all preparations competitively when glucose was varied and non-competitively when MgATP(2-) was varied. AMP inhibition was competitive when MgATP(2-) was the substrate varied and non-competitive when glucose was varied. 6. The results are interpreted as providing evidence for a random reaction mechanism in all preparations of brain hexokinase, cytoplasmic and mitochondrial. The kinetic properties and reaction mechanism do not change on extraction and purification of the particulate enzyme. 7. The results are discussed in terms of the participation of hexokinase in regulation of cerebral glycolysis.
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PMID:Cerebral-cortex hexokinase. Elucidation of reaction mechanisms by substrate and dead-end inhibitor kinetic analysis. 512 80

Mg2+-ATPase activity was identified in the cytosol of human erythrocytes. A partial purification of this activity was achieved by an initial DEAE-Sephadex column chromatography, followed by gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 and then a second DEAE-Sephadex chromatography procedure. The enzyme appeared in the void volume of the Sephadex G-100 column and was retained on an Amicon XM100A ultrafiltration membrane. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated to be 113 000 from SD gels. The above purification protocol yielded an enzyme with an optimal pH between 7.6 and 8.2. The enzyme activity increased linearly between 30 and 44 degrees C. It was stable for several months at -20 degrees C. Magnesium was essential for activity, but the rate attainable with Mn2+ was at least as great as that due to Mg2+. No other divalent cation was able to substitute for Mg2+ or Mn2+. Neither low nor high Ca2+ concentrations significantly affected the enzymatic activity. Substrate specificity studies showed that ATP was the preferred substrate followed by CTP (46% of the rate produced by ATP). Hydrolysis of GTP, UTP, ITP and ADP was less than 10% of the rate seen with ATP. No phosphatase, pyrophosphatase, phosphodiesterase, hexokinase, phosphofructokinase or adenylate cyclase activity could be detected in this enzyme preparation. Calmodulin, which stimulates the (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase of the human erythrocyte membrane, failed to enhance the Mg2+-ATPase activity. Of considerable interest, the activity of this Mg2+-ATPase was enhanced approximately 5-fold by low concentrations of mercuric ion, p-hydroxymercuribenzoate and DTNB, but was much less sensitive to iodoacetamide.
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PMID:Partial purification and characterization of a novel Mg2+-dependent ATPase present in the cytosol from human erythrocytes. 615 Jul 30

Hexokinase (ATP: hexose 6-phosphotransferase, E.C.2.7.1.1) and phosphofructokinase (ATP:fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase, E.C.2.7.1.11), two key regulatory enzymes of the glycolytic pathway in vertebrate cells, have been isolated and partially purified from Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi epimastigotes. Both enzymes are associated with particles sedimentable at 105 000 X gav for 1 h and have a high degree of latency; they can be solubilized by sonication. Hexokinase catalyses the phosphorylation of a series of monosaccharides at the following relative rates: D-glucose (100) congruent to D-fructose (97) greater than 2-deoxy-D-glucose (72) congruent to mannose (69) greater than 2-amino-D-glucose (63) greater than 3-O-methyl-D-glucose (21). Very little or no phosphorylating activity was found for D-galactose, N-acetyl-2-amino-D-glucose or 1-alpha-methyl-D-glucose. D-Glucose phosphorylation at fixed ATP concentration follows simple Michaelis-Menten kinetics with Km = 40 microM and Vmax = 440 nmol min-1 mg-1 protein. D-Mannose, 2-deoxy-D-glucose and N-acetyl-2-amino-D-glucose act as competitive inhibitors of glucose phosphorylation, suggesting a single kinase. Mg2+-ATP is the preferred phosphoryl donor, ITP and GTP being much less effective. T. cruzi hexokinase is not inhibited by D-glucose 6-phosphate, or by any of the following compounds (2 mM):D-fructose 6-phosphate, D-fructose 1,6-diphosphate, D-glucose 1,6-diphosphate, phosphoenol pyruvate, L-malate and citrate. Phosphofructokinase displays simple Michaelis-Menten kinetics with no evidence of sigmoidicity with respect to D-fructose 6-phosphate at all ATP concentrations tested, giving a Km of 1.31 mM and Vmax = 400 nmol min-1 mg-1 protein at optimal ATP levels. With respect to ATP, the enzyme exhibits Michaelis-Menten kinetics at low concentration (less than 1 mM) of the substrate (Km = 40 microM at 5 mM MgCl2, pH 7.4). A moderate inhibition is observed at high ATP levels (70% of maximal activity at 2 mM). GTP can substitute for ATP as the phosphoryl donor (Km = 79 microM under the same conditions), but produces only very small inhibitory effects at high concentrations. 5'-AMP activates the enzyme by decreasing its Km with respect to D-fructose 6-phosphate without affecting Vm. Other well-known regulators of the activity of this enzyme in procaryote and vertebrate systems such as citrate, phosphoenol pyruvate, ammonium and phosphate ions have no effect in T. cruzi.
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PMID:Regulation of energy metabolism in Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi epimastigotes. I. Hexokinase and phosphofructokinase. 623 52

We examined the hypothesis that initiation of eukaryotic protein synthesis involves ATP-dependent melting of 5'-cap-proximal secondary structure in mRNA by eukaryotic initiation factors 4A and 4B. In reticulocyte lysate depleted of ribonucleoside triphosphates by pretreatment with hexokinase/glucose, initiation complex formation by native reovirus mRNA showed a strict requirement for ATP. The corresponding mRNA synthesized with ITP in place of GTP to minimize secondary structure also required ATP for binding to 40 S ribosomal subunits in complexes characteristic of initiation. In a partial reaction without ribosomes, purified eukaryotic initiation factors 4A and 4B bound and cross-linked to the capped 5'-end of oxidized mRNA. This interaction was ATP-dependent with inosine-substituted or bromouridine-containing reovirus RNAs as observed previously with native mRNA. The results indicate that if initiation involves ATP-dependent denaturation of mRNA, the effect must occur after initiation factor-mediated attachment of mRNA to the 40 S ribosomal subunit.
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PMID:Binding of inosine-substituted mRNA to reticulocyte ribosomes and eukaryotic initiation factors 4A and 4B requires ATP. 688 21

Rabbit hexokinase (EC 2.7.1.1) has been shown to exist in the soluble fraction of reticulocytes as two distinct molecular forms, designated hexokinase Ia and hexokinase Ib, which are separable by ion exchange chromatography and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Hexokinase Ia was found to be similar to the brain enzyme, while hexokinase Ib differs from every other previously reported hexokinase isozyme. Reticulocyte hexokinase Ia and Ib have been purified 55,000-and 50,000-fold, respectively, by a combination of ion exchange chromatography, affinity chromatography, and preparative polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, as proteins homogeneous by sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis. The native proteins have the same molecular weight of 105,000 by gel filtration and sedimentation velocity on sucrose density gradients. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels have a molecular weight of 104,000, indicating that the two forms are monomers. Hexokinase Ia had a pI of 6.2 to 6.3 pH units while hexokinase Ib had a pI of 5.7 to 5.8 pH units by isoelectric focusing. The two enzymes were specific for Mg.ATP and Mg.ITP as the nucleotide substrates. Several hexoses could be phosphorylated by hexokinase Ia and Ib with different affinities.
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PMID:Rabbit red blood cell hexokinase. Evidence for two distinct forms, and their purification and characterization from reticulocytes. 726 29


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