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. 1986 Nov 15;240(1):293–296. doi: 10.1042/bj2400293

Mechanistic origin of the sigmoidal rate behaviour of rat liver hexokinase D ('glucokinase').

A Cornish-Bowden, A C Storer
PMCID: PMC1147410  PMID: 3493769

Abstract

Two recent proposals to account for the kinetic co-operativity of hexokinase D ('glucokinase') from rat liver are examined. A model in which the deviations from Michaelis-Menten kinetics result from a random order of binding of the substrates [Pettersson (1986) Biochem. J. 233, 347-350] accounts satisfactorily for the behaviour as a function of glucose concentrations, but it also predicts observable substrate inhibition by MgATP, which is in fact not observed. An alternative proposal in which the deviations arise from recycling of an enzyme-MgADP complex [Pettersson (1986) Eur. J. Biochem. 154, 167-170] also accounts satisfactorily for some of the data, but the required enzyme-MgADP complex could not be detected in isotope-exchange measurements. Thus the mnemonical mechanism proposed originally [Storer & Cornish-Bowden (1977) Biochem. J. 165, 61-69], which explains the deviations in terms of a relatively slow interconversion between two forms of free enzyme, remains the most parsimonious explanation of the behavior of hexokinase D.

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