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Adenine nucleotides and magnesium ions in relation to control of mammalian cerebral-cortex hexokinase.


ABSTRACT: 1. The kinetics of inhibition of brain soluble cytoplasmic hexokinase by ADP were examined in relation to variations in the concentrations of Mg(2+) and ATP. The type of inhibition observed was dependent on the Mg(2+)/ATP ratio. 2. ADP at Mg(2+)/ATP ratios 2:1 exhibited inhibition of the ;mixed' type; at Mg(2+)/ATP ratios 1:1 the inhibition appeared to be competitive with regard to ATP. 3. Inhibition by free ATP was observed when the Mg(2+)/ATP ratio was less than 1:1. The inhibition was also of the ;mixed' type with respect to MgATP(2-). 4. The inhibitions due to ADP and to free ATP were not additive. The results suggested that there may be up to four sites in the soluble enzyme: for glucose, glucose 6-phosphate, ADP and MgATP(2-). 5. The ;free' non-particulate intracellular Mg(2+) concentration was measured and concluded to be about 1.5mm. 6. The concentrations in vivo of Mg(2+) and ATP likely to be accessible to a cytoplasmic enzyme are suggested to be below those that yield maximum hexokinase rates in vitro. The enzymic rates were measured at relevant suboptimum concentrations of Mg(2+) and ATP in the presence of ADP. Calculations that included non-competitive inhibition due to glucose 6-phosphate (56-65% at 0.25mm) resulted in net rates very similar to the measured rates for overall glycolysis. This system may therefore provide a basis for effective control of cerebral hexokinase.

SUBMITTER: Bachelard HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1187759 | biostudies-other | 1969 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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