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    Glucokinase (EC 2.7.1.2) is an enzyme that facilitates phosphorylation of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate. Glucokinase occurs in cells in the liver and...
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  • The glucokinase regulatory protein (GKRP) also known as glucokinase (hexokinase 4) regulator (GCKR) is a protein produced in hepatocytes (liver cells)...
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    group from ATP to a substrate. Hexokinases should not be confused with glucokinase, which is a specific hexokinase found in the liver. All hexokinases are...
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    is converted to F1P in the liver. This negates the action of F6P on glucokinase, which ultimately favors the forward reaction. The capacity of liver...
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    intracellular starch or glycogen. In animals, an isozyme of hexokinase called glucokinase is also used in the liver, which has a much lower affinity for glucose...
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    Glucokinase regulator is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GCKR gene. This gene encodes a protein belonging to the GCKR subfamily of the SIS...
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  • cells. Due to this, Glucokinase and glucokinase activators are the focus of treatment for those with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Glucokinase have a single allosteric...
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  • mutations of transcription factor genes. One form is due to mutations of the glucokinase gene. For each form of MODY, multiple specific mutations involving different...
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    for his contributions in diabetes research, specifically the work of Glucokinase activation as a treatment therapy for type 2 diabetes. Ramakanth Sarabu...
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    In enzymology, an ADP-specific glucokinase (EC 2.7.1.147) also known as ADP-dependent glucokinase is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ADP...
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  • human chromosome 7 for glucokinase. Glucokinase serves as the glucose sensor for the pancreatic beta cell. Normal glucokinase triggers insulin secretion...
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  • Catholic novelist and author GK Barry, English influencer and presenter Glucokinase, an enzyme that facilitates phosphorylation of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate...
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    first enzyme in the glycolysis pathway, has a specialized form called glucokinase expressed in the liver and pancreas that has a lower affinity for glucose...
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  • northwestern Iranian language branch, spoken in Iran's Gilan Province Glucokinase, an enzyme that facilitates phosphorylation of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate...
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    Cadisegliatin (TTP399) is a liver-selective glucokinase activator. It is being developed by VTV Therapeutics for treatment of type 2 diabetes or type...
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    for hexokinase A (brain hexokinase) to about 50 mM for hexokinase D ("glucokinase", liver hexokinase), more than a 2000-fold range. It would be impossible...
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    there as a cellular glycogen. In the liver cell, it is phosphorylated by glucokinase at position 6 to form glucose 6-phosphate, which cannot leave the cell...
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  • conventional glucokinase and phosphofructokinase, two novel sugar kinase have been discovered. These enzymes are ADP-dependent glucokinase (ADP-GK) and...
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    concentration gradient through the GLUT2 transporter. Since beta cells use glucokinase to catalyze the first step of glycolysis, metabolism only occurs around...
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  • the association of insulin and SREBP-1 lead to the gene expression of glucokinase. The interaction of glucose and lipogenic gene expression is assumed...
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    obesity and type 2 diabetes. This includes research identifying the genes glucokinase and HNF1 risk factors for type 2 diabetes. In 2007, he was elected to...
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  • levels. Glucose is converted into glucose 6-phosphate by the action of glucokinase or hexokinase with conversion of ATP to ADP. Glucose-6-phosphate is converted...
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    Globalagliatin (SY-004) is a glucokinase activator developed by Yabao Pharmaceutical Group for type 2 diabetes. Zhao, Yuqing; Xie, Lijun; Zhang, Hongwen;...
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    gene (SCHAD-CHI) and glucokinase (GCK-CHI). More recently, changes in hexokinase 1 (HK1), another enzyme similar to glucokinase has been identified to...
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  • fitness, and be favoured by natural selection. An example of an isozyme is glucokinase, a variant of hexokinase which is not inhibited by glucose 6-phosphate...
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    catalyzed by the enzyme hexokinase in most cells, and, in higher animals, glucokinase in certain cells, most notably liver cells. One equivalent of ATP is...
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  • Hyperinsulinism due to focal adenomatous hyperplasia Hyperinsulinism due to glucokinase deficiency Hyperinsulinism due to glutamodehydrogenase deficiency Hyperinsulinism...
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    enters the β-cell is phosphorylated to glucose-6-phosphate (G-6-P) by glucokinase (hexokinase IV) which is not inhibited by G-6-P in the way that the hexokinases...
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    and fat cells. Once within cells, glucose is rapidly phosphorylated by glucokinase in the liver and hexokinase in other tissues to form glucose-6-phosphate...
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  • two sugar monosaccharides, glucose and galactose. Another example is Glucokinase, which is an enzyme involved in the phosphorylation of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate...
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