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Query: EC:2.7.1.1 (hexokinase)
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The activities of the key gluconeogenic, glycolytic, and pentose-shunt enzymes in chicken kidney were determined starting from 8 days before to 58 days after hatching. The activities of pyruvate carboxylase (PC), mitochondrial and cytosolic phosphoenolypruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK), fructose-1,6-diphosphatase (FDPase) and glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) were low in the embryonic tissue but increased towards the time of hatching. After hatching, the activities of PC, mitochondrial PEPCK, and G6Pase continued to increase, but those of FDPase and cytosolic PEPCK decreased. Relatively little change in these activities was observed in chickens over 24 days old. The activities of hexokinase (HK), phosphofructokinase (PFK), pyruvate kinase (PK), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) increased during embryonic growth. After hatching, HK activity continued to increase and then decrease, whereas PFK appeared to decrease and then increase to prehatch levels in 28-day-old birds. LDH activity continued to increase until 8 days after hatching and remained constant thereafter. No definite pattern was discernible in the case of PK. As for the pentose-shunt enzymes, there was no significant change in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity (G6PDH), but the activity of 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGDH) increased until the chickens were 14 days old and then remained relatively constant.
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PMID:Development of gluconeogenic, glycolytic, and pentose-shunt enzymes in the chicken kidney. 22 78

Yeast mutants blocked at different steps of the glycolytic pathways have been used to study the inactivation of several gluconeogenic enzymes upon addition of sugars. While phosphorylation of the sugars appears a requisite for the inactivation of fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase and phosphoenol-pyruvate carboxykinase, malate dehydrogenase is inactivated by fructose in mutants lacking hexokinase. The normal inactivation elicited by glucose in a mutant lacking phosphofructokinase indicates that the process does not require metabolism of the sugar beyond hexose monophosphates. A possible role for ATP in the inactivation process is suggested.
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PMID:Inactivation of gluconeogenic enzymes in glycolytic mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 23 32

A protein phosphokinase (EC 2.7.1.1.37) was isolated from baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) after a 17,000-fold purification; the purified enzyme is homogeneous according to the criteria of gel electrophoresis and ultracentrifuge analysis. The enzyme has a high isoelectric point of ca. 9 and appears to exist as a monomer with a molecular weight of 42,000 plus or minus 1500. It is neither stimulated by cyclic 3',5'-AMP, -GMP, -CMP or -ump nor inhibited by the regulatory subunit of rabbit muscle protein kinase (Reimann, E. M., Walsh, D. A., and Krebs, E. G. (1971), J. Biol. Chem. 246, 1986). In the presence of divalent metal ions, preferably Mg-2+ or Mn-2+, the enzyme readily transfers the terminal phosphate group of ATP to phosvitin, alphaS1B- and beta a-casein and an NH2-terminal tryptic peptide derived from beta a-casein, but not to protamine, lysine, or arginine-rich histones or to yeast enzymes such as phosphorylase, phosphofructokinase, or pyruvate carboxylase; serine and polyserine were also inactive as phosphate acceptors. Km values of 0.17 mM for beta a-casein and 0.2 mMfor ATP were determined at 10 mM Mg-2+. The urified yeast protein kinase also catalyzes the reverse reaction, namely, the transfer of phosphate from fully phosphorylated beta a-casein or its NH2-terminal peptide to ADP resulting in the formation of ATP. AMP, GDP, UDP, and CDP did not serve as phosphate acceptors in this reaction. As observed by Rabinowitz and Lipmann (Rabinowitz, M., and Lipmann, F. (1960), J. Biol. Chem. 235, 1043) both reactions have different pHoptima with values of 7.5 for the forward reaction (phosphorylation of the proteins) and ca 5.2 for the formation of ATP; both are differently affected by salts. Phosphorylation of beta a-casein with [gamma-32-P]ATP followed by digestion of the labeled protein with trypsin indicated that all the radioactivity was exclusively introduced in an NH2-terminal peptide possessing the unique sequence: Glu-Ser(P)-Leu-Ser(P)-Ser(P)-Ser(P)-Glu-Glu...(Ribadeau-Dumas, B., Brignon, G., Grosclaude, F., and Mercier, J.-C. (1971), eur J. Biochem. 20, 264). By subjecting beta a-casein and its NH2-terminal peptide to the combined action of almond acid phosphatease and purified yeast protein kinase, it was determined that the phosphorylation and dephosphorylation reactions proceed randomly, i.e., all seryl phosphate residues are equally susceptible and that the rate of phosphorylation decreases drastically as the number of bound phosphate groups in the substrate diminishes.
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PMID:Purification and properties of a yeast protein kinase. 23 75

In studies on the mechanism of the inhibitory effect of 2, 3-diphosphoglycerate on glycolysis in human erythrocytes, the following results were obtained: 1) Glucose consumption and lactate production are reduced by 70 and 40 per cent relative to normal erythrocytes in red blood cells containing five times the normal amount of 2, 3, -P2-glycerate ("high-diphosphoglycerate" cells) at an extracellular pH of 7.4. The marked dependency of glycolysis on the extracellular pH observed in normal erythrocytes is almost completely lost in the "high-diphosphoglycerate" cells. 2) About 50 per cent of the inhibition of glycolysis in "high-diphosphoglycerate" cells can be accounted for by the 2, 3-P2-glycerate-induced decrease of the red-cell pH. This fall of the red-cell pH which occurs as a conswquence of the Donnan effect of the non-pentrating 2, 3-P2-glycerate anion leads to a reduction of the glycolytic rate due to the properties of the enzyme phosphofructokinase. 3) The remaining part of the inhibitory effect must be attributed to an inhibition by 2, 3-P2-glycerate of glycolytic enzymes. From measurements of glycolytic rates and of the concentrations of glycolytic intermediates in the absence and presence of methylene blue it is concluded that the hexokinase reaction is inhibited by an elevation of 2, 3-P2-glycerate concentration in "high-diphosphoglycerate" cells suggests that also the enzyme pyruvate kinase is inhibited by 2, 3-P2-glycerate. 4) The dependencies of net-change of 2, 3-P2-glycerate concentration on the red-cell pH are identical in normal and "high-diphosphoglycerate" cells indicating that the balance between formation and decomposition of 2, 3-P2-glycerate is the same in erythrocytes with normal and very high compositions of 2, 3-P2-glycerate.
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PMID:Glycolysis in human erythrocytes containing elevated concentrations of 2, 3-P2-glycerate. 23 4

It can be shown theoretically and experimentally that the maximum activities in vitro of enzymes that catalyse near-equilibrium reactions in vivo must be considerably higher than the maximum flux through that pathway. Consequently, the activities of such enzymes cannot provide quantitative information on the maximum possible flux through a pathway. On the other hand, the maximum activity of an enzyme that catalyses a non-equilibrium reaction in vivo may provide quantitative information. Such possibilities must be tested experimentally. Thus the maximum flux through a given metabolic pathway is measured (or calculated) and compared with the maximum in vitro activities of enzymes that catalyse non-equilibrium reactions in that pathway. Catalytic activities similar to the flux suggest that such enzymes may be useful as flux indicators. For example, phosphorylase or phosphofructokinase activities provide a quantitative indication of maximum flux through glycolysis-from-glycogen (i.e. anaerobic glycolysis); hexokinase activities provide a quantitative indication of maximum flux through glycolysis-from-glucose; 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase activities provide a quantitative indication of maximum flux through the citric acid cycle. The advamtages of the use of enzyme activities in this manner include simplicity, general applicability to pathways, tissues and animals, and minimum intervention (particularly in larger animals including the human species). One disadvantage is that the properties of the enzyme must be known in detail before an assay that gives maximum activities can be developed, and the properties of enzymes that catalyse non-equilibrium reactions may be complex. These considerations emphasize the dangers of quantitative interpretation of the maximum flux through pathways from 'near-equilibrium' enzymes or from 'non-equilibrium' enzymes whose properties have been inadequately studied.
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PMID:Use of enzyme activities as indices of maximum rates of fuel utilization. 26 74

Keeping constant cellular magnesium an A 23 187 mediated moderate calcium loading of human red cells causes isoosmotic cell shrinkage, potassium efflux, slight decrease of cellular pH, ATP depletion connected with an increase of AMP, ADP and Pi and enhanced lactic acid formation. The calcium loading and accompanying effects can be abolished by EGTA or by extracellular magnesium, the latter kept more than two orders of magnitude above that of calcium which was 30 micrometer. Inhibition of the (Mg2+ + Ca2+)-dependent ATPase by ruthenium red or lanthanum decreases the calcium stimulated lactic acid formation after a lag phase. However, the ATP depletion proceeds faster and is much more pronounced under these conditions. (Mg+2 + Na+ +K+)-dependent ATPase, hexokinase, phosphofructokinase and cell shrinkage are ruled out, too, as mediators of the ATP depletion. This suggests that an unknown ATP consuming reaction, apparently not being related to the calcium pump, causes the calcium induced ATP depletion.
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PMID:Relations between ion shifting, ATP depletion and lactic acid formation in human red cells during moderate calcium loading using the ionophore A 23187. 33 40

Activities of some enzymes associated with carbohydrate and lipid metabolism were determined in 48 human breast carcinomas and compared with those found in 35 nonmalignant breast tumours and also in 13 normal breast tissues. In fibrocystic disease only the activity of citrate lyase was markedly higher (14-fold) than in normal tissue. The activities of the remaining enzymes did not differ significantly from those in normal tissue. Enzyme activities in breast carcinoma were 4--160 x those determined in normal tissue according to the following sequence : phosphofructokinase less than malate NADP dehydrogenase less than hexokinase less than lactate dehydrogenase less than isocitrate NADP dehydrogenase less than ATP citrate lyase. Activity of citrate lyase, very low in normal breast (0.0017 mumol/min/g of tissue) rose gradually to 0.039, 0.072 and 0.258 mumol/min/g of tissue in localized fibrocystic disease, fibroadenomas and carcinomas respectively. These data support the idea that citrate lyase may play an important role in lipogenesis in hyperplastic human breast tissues.
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PMID:Lipogenetic and glycolytic enzyme activities in carcinoma and nonmalignant diseases of the human breast. 44 7

The influence of androgens on the male accessory glands of the rat was assessed in terms of changes in weight and of the specific activity of the mitochondrial enzymes, succinate dehydrogenase, glycerolphosphate dehydrogenase and pyruvate carboxylase, in the epididymis. In some instances, the activity of the cytoplasmic enzymes, hexokinase and phosphofructokinase, was also measured and the influence of androgens on these enzymes was found to be similar to that on the mitochondrial enzymes. After the administration of androgen to castrated rats the specific activity of enzymes reached a new steady state sooner than did epididymal weight. The time taken for the specific activity of the enzymes to reach a new steady state after the removal of androgen was variable, depending on the enzyme and the region of the epididymis. This time was generally longer, however, than the time taken for induction, and in the case of glycerolphosphate dehydrogenase, the decline of activity was slower in the cauda than in the caput. In castrated animals, about 100 times as much androgen was required to attain maximum tissue weight as was required to attain maximum enzyme activity. The epididymis, prostate and seminal vesicles responded similarly to androgen in terms of the dose-response pattern and the time taken for tissue weight to attain a new steady-state value, although the gain in weight of the epididymis relative to its weight in unstimulated control animals was less than the relative gain of the other accessory glands. Enzymes in the cauda epididymidis required lower amounts of androgen to elicit maximum activity than were required by those in the caput. The rate of change in the accessory glands in attaining new steady-state levels of tissue weight and enzyme activity was independent of the dose of androgen except during the first few days of hormone administration. Androgens were the most effective steroids in stimulating an increase of tissue weight and enzyme activity, although some changes were induced by oestradiol-3-benzoate and progesterone.
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PMID:Influence of androgens on the weights of the male accessory reproductive organs and on the activities of mitochondrial enzymes in the epididymis of the rat. 49 85

Several glycolytic enzymes were observed to have between 40-90% of their activities associated with the particulate fractions of lysed nerve endings. The enzymes showing high particulate activity in lysed nerve endings were hexokinase (EC 2.7.1.1), aldolase (EC 4.1.2.13), glucosephosphate isomerase (EC 5.3.1.9), phosphofructokinase (EC 2.7.1.11), glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.12), pyruvate kinase (EC 2.7.1.40) and lactate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.27). With the exception of phosphofructokinase, 80% or more of the particle associated activity of each enzyme was solubilized by salt treatment indicating the association with particles was ionic. Sub-fractionation of lysed nerve endings showed hexokinase and fumarase (EC 4.2.1.2) had the highest specific activity in the same fractions which is consistent with observations indicating that hexokinase is associated with mitochondria. The other glycolytic zymes having high particulate activity, aldolase, glucosephosphate isomerase, phosphofructokinase, glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase, pyruvate kinase and lactate dehydrogenase, showed enrichment in fractions containing synaptosomal membranes, i.e. the fractions having highest specific activity of acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7) and (Na+ + K+)-ATPase (EC 3.6.1.3).
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PMID:Association of glycolytic enzymes with particulate fractions from nerve endings. 62 35

Evidence is presented that the antitumor agent helenalin, a sesquiterpene lactone, suppresses anaerobic glycolytic enzymes of tumor cells at a number of sites and not exclusively at glycogen synthetase and phosphofructokinase, previously proposed sites for inhibition by alpha-methylene-gamma-lactones. Of the enzymes tested, the sulfhydryl-containing enzyme hexokinase was inhibited the maximum, i.e., 83%, by helenalin treatment, whereas phosphofructokinase and glycogen synthetase were suppressed approximately 45%. Another sulfhydryl-bearing enzyme, aldolase, was decreased approximately 43%. Phosphorylase a was inhibited 65%, glucose-6-phosphatase was inhibited 46%, and succinic dehydrogenase was inhibited 59% by helenalin treatment. Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation processes were also significantly depressed in the presence of helenalin in vitro with either succinate or alpha-ketoglutarate as substrates. Thus, a number of enzymes of anaerobic and aerobic carbohydrate metabolism of Ehrlich ascites cells appear to be inhibited by helenalin, which supposedly can alkylate functional groups, e.g., sulfhydryl groups of these enzymes, by a rapid Michael-type addition.
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PMID:Antitumor agents XXVII: Effects of helenalin on anaerobic and aerobic metabolism of Ehrlich ascites cells. 64 68


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