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Query: EC:2.7.1.1 (hexokinase)
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The atomic models of the complex between rabbit skeletal muscle actin and bovine pancreatic deoxyribonuclease I both in the ATP and ADP forms have been determined by X-ray analysis at an effective resolution of 2.8 A and 3A, respectively. The two structures are very similar. The actin molecule consists of two domains which can be further subdivided into two subdomains. ADP or ATP is located in the cleft between the domains with a calcium ion bound to the beta- or beta- and gamma-phosphates, respectively. The motif of a five-stranded beta sheet consisting of a beta meander and a right handed beta alpha beta unit appears in each domain suggesting that gene duplication might have occurred. These sheets have the same topology as that found in hexokinase.
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PMID:Atomic structure of the actin:DNase I complex. 224 43

Human fibroblasts from a patient homozygous for hexokinase (HK) deficiency and normal controls were submitted to different nutrient shifts to investigate the role of glucose metabolism on ATP levels. HK-deficient cells maintained in the presence of both glucose and L-glutamine had 20 per cent less ATP than controls and an ATP/ADP ratio of 18 instead of 37-40. Glucose alone was not able to maintain normal ATP levels neither in the controls nor in the HK-deficient cells. However while in control cells the ATP/ADP ratio was not modified, it was reduced to 10 in HK deficiency. The effect of several hexoses on ATP levels was also investigated. Mannose, which is metabolized by HK phosphorylation, was the least efficient for ATP maintenance in HK-deficient cells. In contrast galactose, which is metabolized by a specific galactokinase, provided ATP values close to those observed in the presence of glutamine. These results suggest that glucose metabolism is an important determinant in the maintenance of ATP levels in cultured cells and that glutamine, although being a good metabolic substrate, is not sufficient to maintain normal ATP concentrations.
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PMID:ATP modifications in hexokinase deficient fibroblasts exposed to nutrient shifts. 239 64

The respective contribution of exogenous and intramitochondrially formed ATP to D-glucose phosphorylation by mitochondria-bound hexokinase was examined in both rat liver and pancreatic islet mitochondria by comparing the generation of D-glucose 6-[32P]phosphate from exogenous [gamma-32P]ATP to the total rate of D-[U-14C]glucose phosphorylation. In liver mitochondria, the fractional contribution of exogenous ATP to D-glucose phosphorylation ranged from 4 to 74%, depending on the availability of endogenous ATP formed by either oxidative phosphorylation or in the reaction catalyzed by adenylate kinase. Likewise, in islet mitochondria exposed to exogenous ATP but deprived of exogenous nutrient, about 60% of D-glucose phosphorylation was supported by mitochondrial ATP. Such a fractional contribution was further increased in the presence of ADP and succinate, and suppressed by mitochondrial poisons. It is concluded that, in islet like in liver mitochondria, mitochondrial ATP is used preferentially to exogenous ATP as a substrate for D-glucose phosphorylation by mitochondria-bound hexokinase. This may favour the maintenance of a high cytosolic ATP concentration in glucose-stimulated islet cells.
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PMID:Hexose metabolism in pancreatic islets: preferential utilization of mitochondrial ATP for glucose phosphorylation. 240 19

To characterize the route of calcium permeability, the effect of intravesicular and extravesicular calcium concentration on the permeability from sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) vesicles isolated from canine masseter muscle was determined by measuring net efflux of calcium after stopping pump-mediated fluxes. The apparent permeability, calculated as the net efflux divided by the total intravesicular calcium, depended on calcium load. When the intravesicular bound calcium was taken into account, net calcium efflux was found to be linearly related to the difference in calcium concentration across the SR membrane. The first order rate constant of calcium permeability was nearly identical when efflux was initiated by the addition of EGTA or glucose plus hexokinase to quench calcium pump by lowering activator calcium or by converting substrate ATP to ADP and glucose 6-phosphate, respectively. Extravesicular calcium concentration between 0.001 microM and 33.9 microM had no great effect on calcium permeability. The results suggest that some minimal calcium gradient may be required in order to observe a substantial passive calcium efflux, and the passive calcium efflux is not carrier mediated. It is also postulated that passive route of efflux during calcium accumulation is relatively small and that physiological calcium release during excitation-contraction coupling does not occur through this route.
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PMID:[Characterization of calcium permeability at steady-state calcium load in masseter muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum]. 248 61

Extracellular ATP at 10 microM increased the concentration of cytoplasmic free Ca2+ ( [Ca2+]i) 3-fold in human neutrophils. The [Ca2+]i was measured by fura-2 fluorescence. The effect was rapid but transient: [Ca2+]i reached a maximum within 10 s and then returned to its resting value after 2-3 min. The rise in [Ca2+]i elicited by ATP was unaffected by the removal of extracellular Ca2+, indicating that the primary source of Ca2+ is from intracellular stores. In contrast to ATP, neither ADP nor AMP, at concentrations as high as 100 microM, caused any detectable changes in [Ca2+]i. Among other nucleotide triphosphates tested, UTP was as effective as ATP in causing a transient rise in [Ca2+]i, and prevented a subsequent response to ATP. Similarly, ATP prevented a subsequent response to UTP but the second response could be obtained when the initially added ATP was removed by the addition of hexokinase. Phorbol myristate acetate, the activator of Ca2+, phospholipid-dependent protein kinase, completely inhibited the ATP-induced increases in [Ca2+]i without affecting the basal [Ca2+]i level. The results suggest that extracellular ATP stimulates human neutrophils by causing the release of calcium from intracellular storage pools by mechanisms which can be inhibited by phorbol myristate acetate.
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PMID:ATP-induced calcium mobilization in human neutrophils. 249 55

The functional properties of mitochondria bound hexokinase are compared in two subpopulations of the HT29 human colon cancer cell-line: (1) the HT29 Glc+ cells, cultured in the presence of glucose, which are poorly differentiated and highly glycolytic and (2) the HT29 Glc- cells, adapted to grow in a glucose-free medium, which are 'enterocyte-like' differentiated and less glycolytic when given glucose (Zweibaum et al. (1985) J. Cell Physiol. 122, 21-28). The activities of hexokinase, phosphofructokinase-1 and pyruvate kinase are found to be twice as high in Glc+ cells when compared to Glc- cells. Besides, the respiration rate is decreased in Glc+ cells compared to Glc- cells. These results correlate with the higher glycolytic rate in Glc+ cells. In many tissues, it has been shown that the binding of hexokinase to the mitochondrial outer membrane allows a preferential utilization of the ATP generated by oxidative phosphorylation which, in turn, is activated by immediate restitution of ADP. In highly glycolytic cancer cells, although a large fraction of hexokinase is bound to the mitochondria, the existence of such a channeling of nucleotides is still poorly documented. The rates of glucose phosphorylation by bound hexokinase were investigated in mitochondria isolated from both Glc+ and Glc- cells either with exogenous ATP or with ATP generated by mitochondria supplied with ADP and succinate (endogenous ATP). Diadenosine pentaphosphate (Ado2P5), oligomycin and carboxyatractyloside (CAT) were used in combination or separately as metabolic inhibitors of adenylate kinase, ATP synthase and ATP/ADP translocator, respectively. Exogenous ATP appears to be 6.5-times more efficient than endogenous ATP in supporting hexokinase activity in the mitochondria from Glc+ cells and only 1.8-times cells. The rate of oxidative phosphorylation being higher in mitochondria from Glc- cells, hexokinase activity is higher in this model when ATP is generated by respiration. Furthermore, in Glc+ mitochondria, the adenylate kinase reaction appears to be an important source of endogenous ATP for bound hexokinase, while, in Glc- mitochondria, hexokinase activity is almost totally dependent on the ATP generated by oxidative phosphorylation. This result might be explained by our previous finding that mitochondria from Glc+ cells lack contact sites between outer and inner membrane, whereas numerous contacts were observed in mitochondria from Glc- cells (Denis-Pouxviel et al. (1987) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 902, 335-348).
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PMID:Study on ATP-generating system and related hexokinase activity in mitochondria isolated from undifferentiated or differentiated HT29 adenocarcinoma cells. 252 30

P1,P5-di(adenosine 5')pentaphosphate (Ap5A) is an excellent inhibitor of human hemolysate adenylate kinase at concentrations near 2 microM and above. At ten times this concentration and in hemolysate enzyme assays under conditions described in this paper it appears not to alter reaction data in the case of hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, and phosphoglycerokinase. In the pyruvate kinase assay, very modest reductions in activity are noted, and kinetics with phosphoenolpyruvate, adenosine diphosphate (ADP), and uridine diphosphate (UDP) are unaltered.
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PMID:Inhibition of adenylate kinase by P1,P5-di(adenosine 5') pentaphosphate in assays of erythrocyte enzyme activities requiring adenine nucleotides. 254 14

The skeletal muscle has the capacity to respond adaptively to increased use. This observation could open up the feasibility of constructing pumping chambers to support or even replace cardiac work. We investigated the changes in enzyme activity due to chronic stimulation in an animal skeletal muscle. In 5 adult sheep the psoas muscle of one side was electrically stimulated through the muscle nerves, with an implantable stimulation unit for 5 weeks. The activity of the hexokinase (E.C.2.7.1.1.), lactate dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.27), malate dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.37), creatine kinase (E.C.2.7.3.2.) choline acetyltransferase and the contents of adenosine triphosphate and adenosine diphosphate were determined in bioptic specimen. The use of only 15 Hertz as a stimulation frequency led to a transformation of an originally fast-twitch muscle into a slow-twitch muscle with reduced susceptibility to fatigue. These results indicate a potential role of the skeletal muscle as an ideal myocardial substitute with the ability to perform hemodynamic work.
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PMID:[Biochemical changes in skeletal muscles after chronic indirect stimulation]. 260 58

Dietary iron deficiency (ID) decreases iron-containing proteins and hence respiratory capacity of skeletal muscle mitochondria (SMM), but noniron components are much less affected. Using a hexokinase plus glucose ATP-utilizing system, we studied control of respiration in isolated SMM from rats of variable iron status: ID, ID 3 days after intraperitoneal treatment with iron dextran, and control. We found that sensitivity of respiratory control (e.g., ATP/ADP at a given oxygen consumption) was positively related to state 3 respiratory capacity. Titration studies with carboxyatractyloside, a noncompetitive inhibitor of adenine nucleotide translocase (AdNT), revealed that AdNT concentration was unaffected by iron status. However, the turnover number of AdNT was markedly reduced by ID and improved with iron treatment. We conclude that in ID SMM, decreased maximal respiratory capacity is paralleled by impaired sensitivity to putative controllers of oxidative phosphorylation at any respiratory rate, despite normal levels of AdNT. A second study was designed to determine possible consequences of impaired sensitivity of respiratory control on motor unit recruitment during exercise. ID and normal rats were subjected to a program of walking treadmill exercise. Although exercise failed to induce any changes in oxidative enzyme levels in control rat, ID animals and exhibited substantial mitochondrial enzyme adaptation in hindlimb skeletal muscle. Furthermore, the most consistent enzymatic changes were observed to occur in fast glycolytic muscle fibers. These results suggest marked alterations in the pattern of muscle fiber recruitment during mild exercise in ID rodents and support the hypothesis that sensitivity of respiratory control in SMM is an important determinant of motor unit recruitment during aerobic exercise.
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PMID:Impaired control of respiration in iron-deficient muscle mitochondria. 261 Feb 48

Pressure dissociation of yeast glyceraldehydephosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) was studied by fluorescence spectroscopy. Observations in the range of -5 to 30 degrees C indicate that monomer association into the tetramer proceeds with an enthalpy change of -14 kcal mol-1 and a large increase in entropy which at 25 degrees C amounts to 18 kcal mol-1. The large conformational drift and the low-temperature stability of the tetramer recovered after decompression facilitated a comparison of its properties with those of the native tetramer. Significant differences in absorption and fluorescence-excitation polarization spectra, yield of tryptophan fluorescence, and binding of anilinonaphthalenesulfonate and NADH were observed. At 0 degree C the standard free energies of association of the monomers into the native and drifted tetramers were respectively -32 and -29 kcal mol-1. The volume change upon association measured from the pressure span of the compression curves was 200-230 mL mol-1 but four times as large when derived from the displacement of the compression curves with total protein concentration. This large discrepancy can be explained by the existence in the native tetramer population of a distribution of free energies of association with a dispersion from the mean of about 6 kcal mol-1. At 0 degree C and 1 bar ATP and ADP decreased the stability of the GAPDH tetramer by changes in free energy of association of +3.7 and +4.1 kcal mol-1, respectively. NAD and c-AMP stabilized it by -2.3 and -1.3 kcal mol-1. The variation in sign and magnitude of the ligand-induced changes in free energy of association observed in this case, and previously in hexokinase [Ruan, K., & Weber, G. (1988) Biochemistry 27, 3295], and the heterogeneity of the free energy of association of GAPDH, revealed as indicated above, lead to the conclusion that oligomeric aggregates exist in a variety of conformations that depend upon the protein concentration, temperature, pressure, and the presence of specific ligands. The multiplicity of species revealed by the energetics raises questions about the significance of the structures of oligomeric proteins determined by X-ray crystallography.
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PMID:Hysteresis and conformational drift of pressure-dissociated glyceraldehydephosphate dehydrogenase. 265 4


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