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Query: EC:2.7.1.1 (hexokinase)
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1. Rates of insulin secretion, glucose utilization, lactate output, incorporation of glucose into glycogen, contents of glucose 6-phosphate, fructose 1,6-diphosphate and ATP, and maximally extractable enzyme activities of hexokinase, high-K(m) glucose-phosphorylating activity (;glucokinase'), glucose 6-phosphatase and unspecific acid phosphatase were measured in isolated pancreatic islets from fed and 48-h-starved mice. 2. In the fed state insulin secretion from isolated islets was increased five- to six-fold when the extracellular glucose concentration was raised from 2.5mm to 16.7mm; 5mm-caffeine potentiated this effect. The secretory response to glucose of islets from mice starved for 48h was diminished at all glucose concentrations from 2.5mm up to approx. 40mm. Very high glucose concentrations (60mm and above) restored the secretory response to that found in the fed state, suggesting that the K(m) value for the overall secretory process had been increased (approx. fourfold) by starvation. Addition of 5mm-caffeine to islets from starved mice also restored the insulin secretory response to 2.5-16.7mm-glucose to normal values. 3. Extractable hexokinase, ;glucokinase', glucose 6-phosphatase and unspecific phosphatase activities were not changed by starvation. 4. Glucose utilization and glycolysis (measured as the rate of formation of (3)H(2)O from [5-(3)H]glucose over a 2h period) was decreased in islets from starved mice at all glucose concentrations up to approx. 55mm. At still higher glucose concentrations up to approx. 100mm, there was no difference between the fed and starved state, suggesting that the K(m) value for the rate-limiting glucose phosphorylation had been increased (approx. twofold) by starvation. Preparation of islets omitting substrates (glucose, pyruvate, fumarate and glutamate) from the medium during collagenase treatment lowered the glucose utilization measured subsequently at 16.7mm-glucose by 38 and 30% in islets from fed and starved mice respectively. Also the 2h lactate output by the islets at 16.7mm extracellular glucose was diminished by starvation. Incorporation of glucose into glycogen was extremely low, but the rate of incorporation was more than doubled by starvation. 5. After incubation for 30min at 16.7mm-glucose the content of glucose 6-phosphate was unchanged by starvation, that of ATP was increased and the concentration of (fructose 1,6-diphosphate plus triose phosphates) was decreased. 6. Possible mechanisms behind the correlated impairment in insulin secretion and islet glucose metabolism during starvation are discussed.
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PMID:The effect of starvation on insulin secretion and glucose metabolism in mouse pancreatic islets. 415 24

The metabolism of mannose by human erythrocytes has been investigated. Phosphorylation of mannose is achieved by an enzyme with electrophoretic mobility on starch gel indistinguishable from the glucose-phosphorylating enzyme. Mannose phosphorylation is competitively inhibited by glucose; glucose phosphorylation is competitively inhibited by mannose. The K(i) values of inhibition are similar to the K(m) values for uninhibited phosphorylation. The normal average mannose-phosphorylating activity was found to be 0.69 U/g of Hb; the normal average glucose-phosphorylating activity was found to be 0.64 U/g of Hb. The ratio of mannose-phosphorylating activity to glucose-phosphorylating activity of a hemolysate prepared from the red cells of a subject with hexokinase deficiency was found to be within the normal range.Phosphomannose isomerase (PMI) activity of the red cells was found to average 0.064 U/g of Hb at its pH optimum of 5.9 with a mannose-6-phosphate (Man-6-P) concentration of 5 mmoles/liter. The enzyme activity in young cells was greater than activity in old cells. When human erythrocytes are incubated with mannose rapid accumulation of Man-6-P occurs, a finding indicating that PMI and not hexokinase is the limiting enzyme in the over-all conversion of mannose to fructose by the red cell. The ratio of mannose utilization to glucose utilization in hexokinase-deficient cells was greater than normal, as has been reported previously. These cells were found to have greatly increased PMI activity, presumably because of their young mean cell age. Consequently, Man-6-P accumulated only approximately one-third as rapidly as normal in hexokinase-deficient cells incubated with mannose. It is believed that the more rapid utilization of mannose relative to glucose by intact hexokinase-deficient cells may be explained on the basis of the regulatory effect of the PMI reaction on the rate of mannose utilization.
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PMID:Mannose metabolism in the human erythrocyte. 577 84

Measurements have been made of the total hexokinase activity and of the relative amounts of types I and II hexokinase in rat mammary gland and at different stages of the lactation cycle. The total hexokinase activity increased during lactation, that of type II increasing to a greater extent than that of type I; the type II/type I activity ratio rose from a pregnancy value of about 1 to a mid-lactation value of 3, returning to 1 on involution. The changes in type II hexokinase activity during the lactation cycle parallel the changes in the insulin sensitivity of mammary-gland tissue. A study of the effect of alloxan-diabetes on mammary-gland hexokinase during the mid-lactation period revealed that, although the total glucose-phosphorylating capacity of the mammary gland was almost unchanged, the relative contributions of type I and type II hexokinases altered, decreasing the type II/type I activity ratio to about 1.
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PMID:Multiple forms of glucose-adenosine triphosphate phosphotransferase in rat mammary gland. 604 24

The cellular distribution of hexokinase isoenzymes, N-acetylglucosamine Kinase and pyruvate kinases in rat liver was studied. Hepatocytes and non-parenchymal cells with high viability and almost no cross-contamination were obtained by perfusion in situ of the liver with collagenase, with the use of an enriched cell-culture medium in all steps of cell isolation. Separation of hexokinase isoenzymes was done by DEAE-cellulose chromatography, and enzyme activities were measured by a specific radioassay. Cytosol from isolated hepatocytes contained high-affinity hexokinases A, B and C, in addition to hexokinase D. The last-mentioned represented about 95% of total glucose-phosphorylating activity. Only hexokinase A was found associated t the particulate fraction. Isolated non-parenchymal cells contained only hexokinases A, B and C. N-Acetylglucosamine kinase was measured with a specific radioassay and was found as a single enzyme form in both hepatocytes and non-parenchymal cells, with higher activities in the former. Pyruvate kinase isoenzyme L was present only in the hepatocytes and isoenzyme K only in the non-parenchymal liver cells, confirming that they are good cellular markers.
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PMID:All hexokinase isoenzymes coexist in rat hepatocytes. 608 33

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

Activities of key enzymes in hepatic glucose utilization were compared between obese (C57BL/6J ob/ob) mice, their lean controls and outbred Swiss albino mice in the fed condition and during fasting. As liver hyperplasia and hepatocyte hypertrophy were present in the ob/ob mice at 4-5 months of age and changes in hepatic cellularity did occur with fasting, enzyme activity was expressed on the basis of protein, DNA, and wet weight. In the fed state, activities of glucokinase + hexokinase (glucose phosphorylating capability), phosphofructokinase and pyruvate kinase were significantly greater in livers of ob/ob mice when compared to those of the lean control. Glucokinase + hexokinase activities in livers of ob/ob mice remained significantly higher throughout the 48 h fast yet the activities of hepatic phosphofructokinase and pyruvate kinase, when expressed per g wet wt or mg protein, decreased so that a statistical difference from the fasted lean control was no longer detected. When expressed per 100 g body weight, hepatic glucokinase + hexokinase as well as phosphofructokinase and pyruvate kinase activities in obese mice were higher both in the fed and fasted states when compared to lean controls in the comparable nutritional condition. This increased capacity of key enzyme activities in hepatic glucose utilization can be attributed to liver hyperplasia found in ob/ob mice in both the fed and fasted condition. While higher hepatic glucose phosphorylating capability was maintained during fasting, the elevated specific activities of hepatic phosphofructokinase and pyruvate kinase in the obese mouse in the fed state decreased with starvation to values found in the lean control.
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PMID:Enzyme activities of hepatic glucose utilization in the fed and fasting genetically obese mouse at 4-5 months of age. 624 16

We evaluated the possible role of islet glucokinase in controlling the rate of islet glucose metabolism, and thereby the rate of glucose-induced insulin release. The activities of glucokinase, hexokinase, P-fructokinase, and glyceraldehyde-P dehydrogenase were quantitated in sonicated or isotonically homogenized islet preparations using pyridine nucleotide-dependent fluorometric assays. In sonicates, about 1/4 of the islet glucose phosphorylating activity was due to an enzyme with kinetic properties similar to glucokinase; 3/4 of the activity was due to hexokinase. The procedure for determining islet glucokinase activity was improved by centrifuging isotonic islet homogenates at 12,000 x g. The supernatant fraction was enriched for glucokinase. About 1/2 of the glucose phosphorylating activity in this fraction was due to glucokinase and 1/2 was due to hexokinase. The glucokinase activity in islet homogenates was !23 of the activity of hexokinase, 1/40 of the activity of P-fructokinase, and 1/400 of the activity of glyceraldehyde-P dehydrogenase. Detailed concentration dependency curves of glucose and mannose utilization were also obtained with intact isolated pancreatic rat islets. Glucose and mannose usage in islets was governed by two superimposed hyperbolic systems differing in Km and Vmax. A high Km system (Km for glucose 11 mM and for mannose 21 mM) predominated. A low Km system (Km for glucose 215 and for mannose 530 microM) contributed about 15% to the total activity. The available data with intact islets could be rationalized by the existence of two distinct hexose phosphorylating enzymes with differing capacities and kinetic properties. These enzymes, tentatively identified as glucokinase and hexokinase, could coexist in the same cell or could be distributed among different cell types. The possible physiologic significance of these results is discussed, emphasizing the idea of dual control of glycolysis and insulin release by glucokinase and hexokinase. An earlier proposal that glucokinase serves as glucoreceptor of beta-cells [J. Biol. Chem. 243:2730 (1968)] is greatly strengthened by the present studies.
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PMID:Regulation of glucose metabolism in pancreatic islets. 627 17

The respiration of rabbit heart mitochondria in the presence of ATP is stimulated by ADP, AMP, creatine and glucose plus hexokinase. The values of V for mitochondrial phosphorylating respiration in the presence of corresponding stimulators are equal to 491 +/- 34, 460 +/- 12, 480 +/- 45 and 463 +/- 72 natoms O2 X min-1 X mg-1 of protein, 37 degrees C. The half-maximal stimulation of respiration is observed at 35 microM AMP, 60 microM ADP and 10 mM creatine in the absence of creatine phosphate. In the presence of creatine phosphate the maximal stimulation of heart mitochondrial respiration is achieved under a combined action of creatine and AMP. The inhibition type of mitochondrial respiration by palmitoyl-CoA depends on the nature of stimulators used. Thus, with ADP or glucose plus hexokinase the inhibition is competitive, while with AMP and creatine an uncompetitive and non-competitive inhibition was observed, respectively. The experimental results are indicative of functional coupling of heart mitochondrial adenylate kinase and creatine phosphokinase with ATP-ADP-translocase. It is assumed that creatine and AMP act as physiological regulators of heart mitochondrial respiration ("feed-back" signals from cytoplasm to mitochondria).
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PMID:[Functional coupling of creatine phosphokinase and adenylate kinase with adenine nucleotide translocase and its role in regulation of heart mitochondrial respiration]. 631 78

Treatment with the antihistaminic agent methapyrilene led to a decrease of glucose-6-phosphatase activity and to an increase of glucose phosphorylating activity in the periportal zone of the liver acinus. However, the glucogenic capacity was maintained by a compensatory elevation of glucose-6-phosphatase and simultaneous reduction of hexokinase and glucokinase in the perivenous zone. The normal metabolic zonation with a glucogenic periportal and a glycolytic perivenous zone was not abolished but inverted by these alterations.
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PMID:Inversion of the metabolic zonation of rat liver parenchyma by methapyrilene treatment. 631 82

The number and nature of glucose-phosphorylating enzymes of rat intestinal mucosa were investigated by chromatographic, electrophoretic, and kinetic methods. Three fractions with glucose-phosphorylating activity were obtained from the supernatant fluid of mucosa homogenate by means of DEAE-cellulose chromatography, corresponding to hexokinases A and B (EC 2.7.1.1.), and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine kinase (EC 2.7.1.59). Although the latter uses N-acetylglucosamine as the main substrate, it is also able to phosphorylate glucose. Electrophoresis in polyacrylamide and in cellulose acetate gels showed the same three enzyme activities. None of these procedures revealed the presence of either hexokinase D ("glucokinase") or hexokinase C in the intestinal mucosa. In the sediment fractions hexokinase A and B, but not N-acetylglucosamine kinase, were found. The Km values for glucose of partially purified hexokinases A and B were 0.025 and 0.174 mM, respectively, and their substrate specificity was the same as that of hexokinases A or B from other tissues. Partially purified N-acetylglucosamine kinase showed hyperbolic saturation functions for N-acetylglucosamine and ATP, with Km values of 0.021 and 0.38 mM, respectively. This enzyme also phosphorylated glucose, mannose, fructose, 2-deoxyglucose, and glucosamine. The dependence of velocity on glucose concentrations was complex, mimicking negative cooperativity. The molecular weight of both hexokinases A and B was 98,000 and that of N-acetylglucosamine kinase was 59,000. The kinetic properties, as well as the chromatographic and electrophoretic mobilities, of N-acetylglucosamine kinase may serve to confuse it with hexokinase D, and thus several criteria should be applied for correct identification.
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PMID:Kinetic, chromatographic and electrophoretic studies on glucose-phosphorylating enzymes of rat intestinal mucosa. 632 88


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