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Query: EC:2.7.1.1 (hexokinase)
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It is demonstrated that N-bromoacetyl-D-galactosamine acts as a substrate-like reagent for yeast hexokinases A and B, producing affinity labeling. At the order of 10(-3) M reagent concentrations, rapid inactivation of the enzyme is produced: the kinetics are consistent with dependence upon a reversible inhibitor-enzyme initial complex, with a dissociation constant of 3.8 x 10(-3) M for hexokinase B at 35 degrees, pH 8.5. The glucose analog is 30-fold less effective, presumably due to self-protection. The inactivating reaction is an order of magnitude faster than that with bromoacetate. All the alkylation of hexokinase B was shown to occur at two thiol groups per subunit, associated stoichiometrically with inactivation. Unlike the reaction there of simple alkylators, two nonessential thiols per subunit are left unattacked when this inactivation reaction is complete. Protection against the affinity alkylation is exerted by the substrates glucose, mannose, fructose, glucose 6-phosphate, fructose 6-phosphate, ATP-Mg, and ADP-Mg, in proportion to their affinities for the active center. Free ATP also protects. Mg2+ alone has no influence, and Mn2+ gives a slight acceleration, when correction is made for a slow inactivation that occurs when the enzyme is incubated at 35 degrees with Mn2+ alone. Galactose, virtually a nonsubstrate, has no influence on the affinity alkylation, but N-acetylgalactosamine, a nonsubstrate and a weak inhibitor of the enzymic reaction, has an accelerating effect. An interpretation is made in terms of binding to a site that influences the active center. This affinity label should provide a means of isolating a peptide containing active-center-related groups.
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PMID:Essential thiols of yeast hexokinase: alkylation by a substrate-like reagent. 109 53

The ability of Rickettsia prowazekii to transport potential sources of the glucose moiety of bacterial polysaccharides was determined. Transport was determined both by filtration assays and by centrifugation through nonaqueous layers. Uridine 5'-diphosphoglucose (UDPG) was transported, whereas glucose was not transported; the uptake of glucose phosphates, although greater than that for glucose, was markedly lower than the transport of UDPG. Furthermore, the activities of hexokinase and phosphoglucomutase, enzymes required for the metabolism of glucose and glucose 6-phosphate, were undetectable in rickettsial extracts. The uptake of UDPG had an extended time course and did not reach a plateau until 60 min. The maximum rate of uptake was 340 pmol/min per mg of protein, and the rate was half-maximal at a UDPG concentration of 220 microM. Measurement of true influx of UDPG was complicated by the low activity of this transport system and the metabolism of the UDPG. The uptake of labeled UDPG was markedly inhibited by a 10-fold excess of uridine monophosphate, uridine diphospho-N-acetylglucosamine, and uridine diphospho-N-acetylgalactosamine but not by a variety of other structurally related compounds.
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PMID:Acquisition of glucose by Rickettsia prowazekii through the nucleotide intermediate uridine 5'-diphosphoglucose. 309 80

A Ca(2+)-dependent GalNAc/Man-specific lectin (CSL) from Cyclina sinensis was isolated, and its stimulatory action was characterized in yeast. CSL showed a potent effect on the production of ethanol by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this work, the changes in the protein expression profiles of S. cerevisiae after 24h of incubation with CSL were analyzed using label-free quantitative proteomics. A total of 1410 proteins were identified, but only 117 proteins showed significant differences in normalized volume (p<0.05). Among the latter proteins, 24 proteins were up-regulated, and 93 were down-regulated. Analysis of the proteome revealed that CSL triggered changes in the concentrations of some enzymes, such as increased expression of hexokinase, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase and enolase and decreased expression of dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase. These results indicate that CSL can cause some changes in the metabolic pathway involved in ethanol synthesis in S. cerevisiae. These data may help us understand the stimulatory mechanism of lectin in the fermentation process.
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PMID:Quantitative proteomic analysis of the effects of a GalNAc/Man-specific lectin CSL on yeast cells by label-free LC-MS. 2679 10