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. 1971 Aug;123(5):707–715. doi: 10.1042/bj1230707

Cerebral-cortex hexokinases. Elucidation of reaction mechanisms by substrate and dead-end inhibitor kinetic analysis

H S Bachelard 1, A G Clark 1,*, M F Thompson 1
PMCID: PMC1177071  PMID: 5124380

Abstract

1. The substrate kinetic properties of cerebral hexokinases (mitochondrial and cytoplasmic) were studied at limiting concentrations of both glucose and MgATP2−. Primary plots of the enzymic activity gave no evidence of a Ping Pong mechanism in three types of mitochondrial preparation tested (intact and osmotically disrupted mitochondria, and the purified mitochondrial enzyme), nor in the purified cytoplasmic preparation. 2. Secondary plots of intercepts from the primary plots (1/v versus 1/s) versus reciprocal of second substrate of the mitochondrial activity gave kinetic constants which differed from those obtained directly from the plots of 1/v versus 1/s or of s/v versus s, although the ratios of the derived constants were consistent. The kinetic constants obtained with the cytoplasmic enzyme from primary and secondary plots were consistent. 3. Deoxyglucose, as alternative substrate, inhibited cytoplasmic hexokinase by competition with glucose, but did not compete when MgATP2− was the substrate varied. The Ki for deoxyglucose when glucose concentrations were varied was 0.25mm. 4. A range of ATP analogues was tested as potential substrates and inhibitors of hexokinase activity. GTP, ITP, CTP, UTP and βγ-methylene-ATP did not act as substrates, nor did they cause significant inhibition. Deoxy-ATP proved to be almost as effective a substrate as ATP. AMP inhibited but did not act as substrate. 5. N-Acetyl-glucosamine inhibited all preparations competitively when glucose was varied and non-competitively when MgATP2− was varied. AMP inhibition was competitive when MgATP2− was the substrate varied and non-competitive when glucose was varied. 6. The results are interpreted as providing evidence for a random reaction mechanism in all preparations of brain hexokinase, cytoplasmic and mitochondrial. The kinetic properties and reaction mechanism do not change on extraction and purification of the particulate enzyme. 7. The results are discussed in terms of the participation of hexokinase in regulation of cerebral glycolysis.

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