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[[Adipocytes]] lack glycerol kinase so they cannot metabolize the glycerol produced during triacyl glycerol degradation.  This glycerol is instead shuttled to the [[liver]] via the [[blood]] where it is:
[[Adipocytes]] lack glycerol kinase so they cannot metabolize the glycerol produced during triacyl glycerol degradation.  This glycerol is instead shuttled to the [[liver]] via the [[blood]] where it is:
* phosphorylated by glycerol kinase to glycerol 3-phosphate
* phosphorylated by glycerol kinase to glycerol 3-phosphate
* Converted from Glycerol 3-Phosphate to [[dihydroxyacetone phosphate]] (DHAP) via Glycerol 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase. DHAP can participate in [[glycolysis]] or [[gluconeogenesis]].
* Converted from glycerol 3-phosphate to [[dihydroxyacetone phosphate]] (DHAP) via [[Glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase|glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase]]. DHAP can participate in [[glycolysis]] or [[gluconeogenesis]].


==Enzyme regulation==
==Enzyme regulation==

Latest revision as of 12:50, 4 January 2019

glycerol kinase
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glycerol kinase dimer, E.Coli
Identifiers
EC number2.7.1.30
Databases
IntEnzIntEnz view
BRENDABRENDA entry
ExPASyNiceZyme view
KEGGKEGG entry
MetaCycmetabolic pathway
PRIAMprofile
PDB structuresRCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum
glycerol kinase
Identifiers
SymbolGK
Entrez2710
HUGO4289
OMIM300474
RefSeqNM_000167
UniProtP32189
Other data
EC number2.7.1.30
LocusChr. X p21.3

Glycerol kinase, encoded by the gene GK, is a phosphotransferase enzyme involved in triglycerides and glycerophospholipids synthesis.

Glycerol kinase catalyzes the transfer of a phosphate from ATP to glycerol thus forming glycerol 3-phosphate:

ATP + glycerol <=> ADP + sn-glycerol 3-phosphate

Adipocytes lack glycerol kinase so they cannot metabolize the glycerol produced during triacyl glycerol degradation. This glycerol is instead shuttled to the liver via the blood where it is:

Enzyme regulation

This protein may use the morpheein model of allosteric regulation.[1]

Structure

Glycerol Kinase (alternative name, ATP:glycerol 3-phosphotransferase or Glycerokinase) adopts a ribonuclease H-like fold consisting of an alpha-beta 2-layer sandwich of CATH family 3.30.420.40. As of March 2010, there were 20 structures of this protein in the PDB, most of which are homodimeric.

See also

External links

References

  1. Selwood T, Jaffe EK (March 2012). "Dynamic dissociating homo-oligomers and the control of protein function". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 519 (2): 131–43. doi:10.1016/j.abb.2011.11.020. PMC 3298769. PMID 22182754.