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Query: EC:2.7.1.1 (hexokinase)
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Factors that influence hemoglobin (Hb)A(Ic) synthesis by intact erythrocytes were studied in vitro. After incubation cells were lysed, and hemoglobins were separated by isoelectric focusing on polyacrylamide slab gels and quantitated by microdensitometry. HbA(Ic) increased with time, glucose concentrations (5-500 mM), and incubation temperature (4 degrees -37 degrees C). Low temperatures allowed prolonged incubations with minimal hemolysis. At 4 degrees C HbA(Ic) increased linearly with time for 6 wk; after incubation at the highest glucose concentration, HbA(Ic) comprised 50% of total hemoglobin. Insulin (1 and 0.1 mU/ml) did not affect HbA(Ic) synthesis in vitro. In addition to glucose, galactose and mannose, but not fructose, served as precursors to HbA(Ic). A good substrate for hexokinase (2-deoxyglucose) and a poor hexokinase substrate (3-O-methylglucose), were better precursors for HbA(Ic) synthesis than glucose, suggesting that enzymatic phosphorylation of glucose is not required for HbA(Ic) synthesis. Autoradiography after erythrocyte incubation with (32)P-phosphate showed incorporation of radioactivity into HbA(Ia1) and A(Ia2), but not HbA(Ib), A(Ic), or A. Acetylated HbA, generated during incubation with acetylsalicylate, migrated anodal to HbA(Ic) and clearly separated from it. Erythrocytes from patients with insulinopenic diabetes mellitus synthesized HbA(Ic) at the same rate as controls when incubated with identical glucose concentrations. Likewise, the rate of HbA(Ic) synthesis by erythrocytes from patients with cystic fibrosis and congenital spherocytosis paralleled controls. When erythrocytes from cord blood and from HbC and sickle cell anemia patients were incubated with elevated concentrations of glucose, fetal Hb, HbC, and sickle Hb decreased, whereas hemoglobins focusing at isoelectric points near those expected for the corresponding glycosylated derivatives appeared in proportionately increased amounts.
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PMID:Synthesis of hemoglobin Aic and related minor hemoglobin by erythrocytes. In vitro study of regulation. 3 12

A congenital erythrocyte pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency was found in a 72-year old female patient with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML). Erythrocyte PK deficiency was associated with an increase in the activity of hexokinase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase and glutathione peroxidase in erythrocytes as well as a decrease in acetylcholinesterase, glutathione reductase and glucosephosphate isomerase activities. The enzymatic abnormalities were accompanied by alterations in hemoglobin and in i antigen content of erythrocyte membrane. In addition, bone marrow ultrastructural studies showed dyshemopoietic changes in all blood cell lines and especially in erythroblasts. The present findings confirm the close relationship between CMML and acquired dyserythropoietic syndromes and constitute a new observation of the infrequent association of hereditary erythrocyte enzymopathies and leukemia. A survey of the literature is presented.
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PMID:Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia associated with hereditary pyruvate kinase deficiency and multiple acquired erythrocyte abnormalities. 10 94

Clinical and hematological studies were performed on ten homozygous and seven heterozytous individuals with pyruvate kinase deficiency, aged between 2 and 71 years. Five of the homozygotes were splenectomized. With the exception of a decreased enzyme activity between 41 and 55 per cent and minor changes in their red cell metabolism the heterozygotes showed no abnormal results. In the homozygotes the following results could be demonstrated: 1. Pyruvate kinase activity was decreased to 11 to 35 per cent of normal enzyme activity. 2. There is no relation between the severity of hemolysis and the degree of the enzyme defect. 3. The reticulocyte counts correlated inversely with the hemoglobin concentrations. 4. There is a close correlation between the activities of hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and glutamate oxalacetate transaminase on the one side and reticulocyte counts on the other. 5. Adenosine triphosphate or adenosine reduced the increased autohemolysis in all cases. 6. Following splenectomy, anemia was less pronounced than before. Splenectomized patients did not need further transfusions, though hemolysis persisted.
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PMID:[Pyruvate kinase deficiency. I. Clinical and hematological observations (author's transl)]. 12 93

1) The activities of 16 enzymes of glycolysis and of glutathione metabolism were determined in intact human red cell membranes (ghosts) which were prepared by hypotonic hemolysis. 2) Enzymes and hemoglobin of the ghosts were resolved by two toluene extractions. Only the four enzymes hexokinase, fructose-bisphosphate aldolase, glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase and pyruvate kinase could not be released completely from the ghosts. 3) The residual membrane fraction, which was obtained after the toluene extraction of ghosts prepared at 30 imOsM, contained 0.02% of the original hemoglobin content of the red cell. Between 6.5 and 23% of the hemolysate activities of glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase, phosphoglycerate kinase, pyruvate kinase and fructose-bisphosphate aldolase were detected in this fraction after mechanical disruption. 4) Sonication of intact ghosts increased the activities of fructose-bisphosphate aldolase, pyruvate kinase and phosphoglycerate kinase. 5) In "white" ghosts prepared at 5 imOsM phosphate buffer which contained 0.5% of the original hemoglobin the activities of fructose-bisphosphate aldolase and glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase were detected at high levels. The activities of pyruvate kinase and phosphoglycerate kinase were low in these preparations. 6) The results indicate that one part of all enzymes is loosely attached to the inner surface of the membrane as is hemoglobin. A second part, the "cryptic enzyme activity", is available after resolving by toluene. A residual part of four enzymes is firmly bound to the membrane. Two of them (fructose-bisphosphate aldolase and glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase) are oriented toward the inner surface of the membrane, whereas pyruvate kinase and phosphoglycerate kinase are hidden in the lipid core of the membrane.
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PMID:Organization of enzymes of glycolysis and of glutathione metabolism in human red cell membranes. 16 42

Pyrimidine 5'-nucleotidase (P5N, EC 3.1.3.5) appears to be a sensitive index of exposure to low level lead. In 21 children 2 to 5 years old with blood leads of 7 to 80 micrograms/dl there was a negative linear correlation of blood lead and red cell P5N: r = -0.60 (P less than 0.01), Y = -0.11X + 12.3. In rats, the enzyme assay was quantitatively similar to that of the human. A treatment group of 12 rats received lead acetate, 36 mg/kg/day, of lead as 0.17 M lead acetate for 24 days. The blood lead of treated rats increased from the control value of 8.3 +/- 1.3 to 36.0 +/- 0.5 on day 24; P5N decreased from 18.3 +/- 0.8 units to 9.0 +/- 1.0 and was below control values at a blood lead of 25. There was a significant negative linear correlation of blood lead and P5N: r = -0.85; n = 17; P less than 0.001; Y = 0.34X + 20.9 that was independent of the correlationship with the reticulocytes. At these levels of blood lead and P5N there was no significant change in the hexokinase, hemoglobin or red cell count and no evidence of stippling.
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PMID:Low level lead and inhibition of erythrocyte pyrimidine nucleotidase. 23 17

Fetal and adult erythrocyte characteristics were studied serially in a 30-mo-old female with juvenile chronic myelocytic leukemia. On presentation the erythrocytes exhibited predominantly fetal characteristics as indicated by 69% hemoglobin F (HbF), 1.1% hemoglobin A2 (HbA2), absent I antigen, and fetal levels of the erythrocyte enzymes, carbonic anhydrase I and II, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, hexokinase, pyruvate kinase, and lactate dehydrogenase; 100% of the erythrocytes present contained HbF. However, Orskov-Jacobs-Stewart hemolysis demonstrated that at least one adult characteristic was present. Seven months later HbF was 17%; I antigen and carbonic anhydrase I had increased to adult levels. The number of cells containing HbF had decreased to 30%. Further studies indicated that at least three new populations of red cells were present after 7 mo which had not previously been detected. Two of these populations exhibited a mixture of both fetal and adult characteristics. Such findings suggested that an ongoing disturbance of regulatory mechanisms was responsible for the variable expression of fetal versus adult erythrocyte characteristics.
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PMID:Changing erythrocyte populations in juvenile chronic myelocytic leukemia: evidence for disordered regulation. 26 91

A neutral SH-dependent proteinase was isolated from bovine spleen by a slight modification of the previous method (1) and its action on some natural and synthetic substrates was studied. The activity of the enzyme was increased 2000--2500-fold as compared to that of the original extract. The enzyme hydrolyzed various histones (H1, H2a, H2b, H3), casein and protamine but did not split hemoglobin, serum albumin and 14C-tryptophane-labelled total protein from chicken embryos. The enzyme possessed neither collagenolytic nor elastase activity; it did not inactivate aldolase, hexokinase, glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, which makes the enzyme different from cathepsin B1 and some other previously described proteinases. The enzyme did not split BAPA, BAEE, ATEE, Boc-Ala-ONP, Leu-beta-NA and some other peptides. The molecular weight of the enzyme was found to be about 15 000.
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PMID:[Isolation and properties of neutral SH-dependent proteinase from bovine spleen]. 43 66

We assessed the analytical performance of the co-immobilized hexokinase (EC 2.7.1.1) and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.49) method for D-glucose analysis on the Technicon SMAC. The enzyme-containing coils were usable for one month, or 12 000 tests. Bilirubin, hemoglobin, lipemia, creatinine, uric acid, citric acid, and ascorbic acid did not interfere. Results with this method were compared to those by the National Glucose Reference Method. The upper limits of the total error estimate (a combination of random and systematic errors) were 76, 74, and 125 mg/liter at concentrations of 500, 1200, and 3000 mg/liter, respectively. The error estimates were less than allowable errors based on medical usefulness; thus the method was judged to perform acceptably with respect to the Reference Method. We also present performance data for the routine SMAC glucose oxidase (EC 1.1.3.4)/Peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.7) 3-methyl-2-benzothianolinone hydrazone-N,N-dimethylaniline method, the direct hexokinase method with the Du Pont aca, and the glucose oxidase oxygen-rate method with the Beckman Glucose Analyzer.
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PMID:Evaluation of the co-immobilized hexokinase/glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase method for glucose, as adapted to the Technicon SMAC. 65 1

In a theoretical study the influence of hemoglobin and Mg-ions as binding partners of red cell 2,3-diphosphoglycerate and ATP was investigated. Free hemoglobin may be an efficient competitor of Mg2+ for the ligand ATP. At conditions which favour hemoglobin as binding partner (i.e. desoxygenation, low medium pH and incubation temperature, as in blood preservation) up to 95% of the whole cellular ATP (ca. 2mM in cell water) may be bound to hemoglobin (ca. 7 mM). This binding is largely prevented in the presence of physiological amounts of diphosphoglycerate (ca. 7 mM) which is in excess and has a higher binding affinity to hemoglobin. Therefore, diphosphoglycerate keeps ATP (MgATP) in cell water solution at conditions in which Hb would trop it in the presence of Mg2+ (ca. 3mM). It can be calculated that, by lack of free MgATP, the activity of hexokinase within the cell drops by a factor of greater than 10 when diphosphoglycerate is metabolized. This indirect activation by diphosphoglycerate of hexokinase is operative at free concentrations of DPG far below those which exert the well known excess inhibitory effect on hexokinase and phosphofructokinase. In a model study, the activation by diphosphoglycerate of the initial two-kinase stage was introduced into a simplified kinetic model of glycolysis. A pronounced hysteresis loop of the stationary concentrations of ATP and diphosphoglycerate was produced indicating the existence of several stationary states, one with high ATP and high diphosphoglycerate, the other one with low values. It is demonstrated that diphosphoglycerate, being a protector of glycolysis at physiological concentrations, triggers an autocatalytic breakdown of the energy state when permitted to drop to low values.
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PMID:[Importance of binding of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate and ATP to hemoglobin for erythrocyte glycolysis: activation by 2,3-diphosphoglycerate of hexokinase at intracellular conditions]. 70 29

Studies are reported on the reaction kinetics of the glucose assay according to Trinder which involves the specific oxidation of glucose by glucose oxidase and the determination of the hydrogen peroxide released by means of phenol and 4-aminophenazone in the presence of peroxidase. The results have been used to develop a general kinetic fixed-time method for the analysis of glucose in whole blood and serum. The single reagent method has been adapted to the ENI GEMSAEC centrifugal analyzer and to the Abbott ABA-100 analyzer. The procedures exhibited excellent precision and the results correlated well with those obtained by the hexokinase method, Linearity was achieved from 3 to 64 mmol/1 glucose for the GEMSAEC method, and from 3 to 33 mmol/1 glucose for the ABA-100 method. Reagent or sample blank corrections were not necessary. There were no interferences from various drugs, hemoglobin, bilirubin, or lipemia.
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PMID:Kinetic enzymatic method for automated determination of glucose in blood and serum. 83 60


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