Summary

Hexokinase

Hexokinase ( EC:2.7.1.1) contains two structurally similar domains represented by this family and PF00349. Some members of the family have two copies of each of these domains.

Literature references

Bennett WS Jr, Steitz TA; , J Mol Biol 1980;140:211-230.: Structure of a complex between yeast hexokinase A and glucose. II. Detailed comparisons of conformation and active site configuration with the native hexokinase B monomer and dimer. PUBMED:7001032
Steitz TA; , J Mol Biol 1971;61:695-700.: Structure of yeast hexokinase-B. I. Preliminary x-ray studies and subunit structure. PUBMED:5133118

InterPro entry IPR001312

Hexokinase is an important enzyme that catalyses the ATP-dependent conversion of aldo- and keto-hexose sugars to the hexose-6-phosphate (H6P). The enzyme can catalyse this reaction on glucose, fructose, sorbitol and glucosamine, and as such is the first step in a number of metabolic pathways PUBMED:1783373. The addition of a phosphate group to the sugar acts to trap it in a cell, since the negatively charged phosphate cannot easily traverse the plasma membrane.

The enzyme is widely distributed in eukaryotes. There are three isozymes of hexokinase in yeast (PI, PII and glucokinase): isozymes PI and PII phosphorylate both aldo- and keto-sugars; glucokinase is specific for aldo-hexoses. All three isozymes contain two domains PUBMED:1783373. Structural studies of yeast hexokinase reveal a well-defined catalytic pocket that binds ATP and hexose, allowing easy transfer of the phosphate from ATP to the sugar PUBMED:10749890. Vertebrates contain four hexokinase isozymes, designated I to IV, where types I to III contain a duplication of the two-domain yeast-type hexokinases. Both the N- and C-terminal halves bind hexose and H6P, though in types I an III only the C-terminal half supports catalysis, while both halves support catalysis in type II. The N-terminal half is the regulatory region. Type IV hexokinase is similar to the yeast enzyme in containing only the two domains, and is sometimes incorrectly referred to as glucokinase.

The different vertebrate isozymes differ in their catalysis, localisation and regulation, thereby contributing to the different patterns of glucose metabolism in different tissues PUBMED:12756287. Whereas types I to III can phosphorylate a variety of hexose sugars and are inhibited by glucose-6-phosphate (G6P), type IV is specific for glucose and shows no G6P inhibition. Type I enzyme may have a catabolic function, producing H6P for energy production in glycolysis; it is bound to the mitochondrial membrane, which enables the coordination of glycolysis with the TCA cycle. Types II and III enzyme may have anabolic functions, providing H6P for glycogen or lipid synthesis. Type IV enzyme is found in the liver and pancreatic beta-cells, where it is controlled by insulin (activation) and glucagon (inhibition). In pancreatic beta-cells, type IV enzyme acts as a glucose sensor to modify insulin secretion. Mutations in type IV hexokinase have been associated with diabetes mellitus.

Clan

This family is a member of clan Actin_ATPase (CL0108), which contains the following 26 members:

Acetate_kinase Actin BcrAD_BadFG Bvg_acc_factor CmcH_NodU DDR DUF1464 DUF1786 EutA FGGY_C FGGY_N FtsA Fumble GDA1_CD39 Glucokinase Hexokinase_1 Hexokinase_2 HSP70 Hydant_A_N Hydantoinase_A MreB_Mbl Peptidase_M22 Ppx-GppA ROK StbA UPF0075

Gene Ontology

Molecular function	ATP binding (GO:0005524)
Molecular function	phosphotransferase activity, alcohol group as acceptor (GO:0016773)
Biological process	carbohydrate metabolic process (GO:0005975)

External database links

HOMSTRAD:	hexokinase
PANDIT:	PF03727
PRINTS:	PR00475
PROSITE:	PDOC00370
SCOP:	1cza
SYSTERS:	Hexokinase_2

Domain organisation

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Alignments

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Alignment:	Seed (15) Full (779) NCBI (1350) Metagenomics (6)
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Alignment:	Seed (15) Full (779)
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The main seed and full alignments are generated using sequences from the UniProt sequence database. However, we also generate alignments using sequences from the NCBI sequence database and the "metaseq" metagenomics dataset.

You can view alignments from these two additional datasets using the form above, or you can download alignments of NCBI or metagenomics sequences, as gzip-compressed files.

Pfam alignments:	Seed (15) Full (779) NCBI (1350) Metagenomics (6)
Full length sequences	Full-sequences (779)

External links

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Trees

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Curation and family details

This section shows the detailed information about the Pfam family. You can see the definitions of many of the terms in this section in the glossary and a fuller explanation of the scoring system that we use in the scores section of the help pages.

Curation

Seed source:

Prosite

Previous IDs:

hexokinase2;

Type:

Domain

Author:

Sonnhammer ELL, Finn RD, Griffiths-Jones SR

Number in seed:

15

Number in full:

779

Average length of the domain:

221.60 aa

Average identity of full alignment:

34 %

Average coverage of the sequence by the domain:

41.43 %

HMM information

HMM build commands:

build method: hmmbuild -o /dev/null HMM SEED

search method: hmmsearch -Z 9421015 -E 1000 HMM pfamseq

Model details:

Parameter	Sequence	Domain
Gathering cut-off	21.3	21.3
Trusted cut-off	22.4	21.4
Noise cut-off	19.6	21.2

Model length:

243

Family (HMM) version:

9

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Species distribution

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Interactive tree

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Interactions

There are 2 interactions for this family. More...

Hexokinase_1 Hexokinase_2

Structures

For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the MSD group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the Hexokinase_2 domain has been found.

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Family: Hexokinase_2 (PF03727)

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