Enzyme-to-enzyme channeling in the early steps of glycolysis in rat pancreatic islets

Endocrine. 2004 Jul;24(2):105-9. doi: 10.1385/ENDO:24:2:105.

Abstract

The enzyme-to-enzyme channeling of metabolic intermediates is not an uncommon process. The present review draws attention to recent experimental work documenting, in rat pancreatic islets, the enzyme-to-enzyme channeling of alpha-D-glucose 6-phosphate between hexokinase isoenzyme(s), mainly glucokinase, and phosphoglucoisomerase. Likewise, the possible enzyme-to-enzyme channeling of beta-D-fructose 6-phosphate between phosphoglucoisomerase and phosphofructokinase is briefly evoked. These considerations are relevant to the anomeric specificity of D-glucose metabolism, even in islets exposed to equilibrated D-glucose, to the perturbation of such an anomeric specificity in the phenomenon of so-called B-cell glucotoxicity, and to the correct interpretation of 3HOH generation from D-[2-(3H)]glucose.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Enzymes / metabolism*
  • Fructosephosphates / metabolism
  • Glucokinase / metabolism
  • Glucose / metabolism*
  • Glucose-6-Phosphate / metabolism
  • Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase / metabolism
  • Glycolysis*
  • Hexokinase / metabolism
  • Islets of Langerhans / enzymology*
  • Islets of Langerhans / metabolism
  • Phosphofructokinases / metabolism
  • Rats
  • Substrate Specificity

Substances

  • Enzymes
  • Fructosephosphates
  • Glucose-6-Phosphate
  • fructose-6-phosphate
  • Phosphofructokinases
  • Hexokinase
  • Glucokinase
  • Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase
  • Glucose