Hepatic fructokinase

ketohexokinase (fructokinase)

Ketohexokinase homodimer, Human

Identifiers

Symbol

KHK

NCBI gene

3795

HGNC

6315

OMIM

229800

RefSeq

NM_006488

UniProt

P50053

Other data

EC number

2.7.1.3

Locus

Chr. 2 p23.3-23.2

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Ketohexokinase

Identifiers

EC no.

2.7.1.3

CAS no.

9030-50-6

Databases

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BRENDA

BRENDA entry

ExPASy

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KEGG

KEGG entry

MetaCyc

metabolic pathway

PRIAM

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PDB structures

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Hepatic fructokinase (or ketohexokinase) is an enzyme that catalyzes the phosphorylation of fructose to produce fructose-1-phosphate.

ATP +

\longrightarrow

ADP +

ATP + D-fructose → ADP + D-fructose-1-phosphate^[1]

Pathology

A deficiency is associated with essential fructosuria.

References

^ Bais R, James HM, Rofe AM, Conyers RA (1985). "The purification and properties of human liver ketohexokinase. A role for ketohexokinase and fructose-bisphosphate aldolase in the metabolic production of oxalate from xylitol". Biochem. J. 230 (1): 53–60. doi:10.1042/bj2300053. PMC 1152585. PMID 2996495.

External links

Hepatic+fructokinase at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Fructose / Fructolysis

Hepatic fructokinase
Aldolase B
Triokinase

Sorbitol

Galactose / Galactolysis

Lactose

Mannose

Mannose phosphate isomerase

Transferases: phosphorus-containing groups (EC 2.7)

2.7.1-2.7.4:
phosphotransferase/kinase
(PO₄)

2.7.1: OH acceptor	Hexo- Gluco- Fructo- Hepatic Galacto- Phosphofructo- 1 Liver Muscle Platelet 2 Riboflavin Shikimate Thymidine ADP-thymidine NAD⁺ Glycerol Pantothenate Mevalonate Pyruvate Deoxycytidine PFP Diacylglycerol Phosphoinositide 3 Class I PI 3 Class II PI 3 Sphingosine Glucose-1,6-bisphosphate synthase
2.7.2: COOH acceptor	Phosphoglycerate Aspartate kinase
2.7.3: N acceptor	Creatine
2.7.4: PO₄ acceptor	Phosphomevalonate Adenylate Nucleoside-diphosphate Uridylate Guanylate Thiamine-diphosphate

2.7.6: diphosphotransferase
(P₂O₇)

2.7.7: nucleotidyltransferase
(PO₄-nucleoside)

Polymerase

DNA polymerase	DNA-directed DNA polymerase I/A γ θ ν T7 Taq II/B α δ ε ζ Pfu III/C IV/X β λ μ TDT V/Y η ι κ RNA-directed DNA polymerase Reverse transcriptase Telomerase
RNA polymerase	Template-directed RNA polymerase I II III IV V ssRNAP POLRMT Primase 1 2 PrimPol RNA-dependent RNA polymerase Polyadenylation PAP PNPase

Phosphorolytic
3' to 5' exoribonuclease

Nucleotidyltransferase

Guanylyltransferase

mRNA capping enzyme

Other

2.7.8: miscellaneous

Phosphatidyltransferases	CDP-diacylglycerol—glycerol-3-phosphate 3-phosphatidyltransferase CDP-diacylglycerol—serine O-phosphatidyltransferase CDP-diacylglycerol—inositol 3-phosphatidyltransferase CDP-diacylglycerol—choline O-phosphatidyltransferase
Glycosyl-1-phosphotransferase	N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate transferase

2.7.10-2.7.13: protein kinase
(PO₄; protein acceptor)

2.7.10: protein-tyrosine	see tyrosine kinases
2.7.11: protein-serine/threonine	see serine/threonine-specific protein kinases
2.7.12: protein-dual-specificity	see serine/threonine-specific protein kinases
2.7.13: protein-histidine	Protein-histidine pros-kinase Protein-histidine tele-kinase Histidine kinase

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Activity	Active site Binding site Catalytic triad Oxyanion hole Enzyme promiscuity Diffusion-limited enzyme Cofactor Enzyme catalysis
Regulation	Allosteric regulation Cooperativity Enzyme inhibitor Enzyme activator
Classification	EC number Enzyme superfamily Enzyme family List of enzymes
Kinetics	Enzyme kinetics Eadie–Hofstee diagram Hanes–Woolf plot Lineweaver–Burk plot Michaelis–Menten kinetics
Types	EC1 Oxidoreductases (list) EC2 Transferases (list) EC3 Hydrolases (list) EC4 Lyases (list) EC5 Isomerases (list) EC6 Ligases (list) EC7 Translocases (list)

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^ Beebe, Jane A.; Frey, Perry A. (1998-10-01). "Galactose Mutarotase: Purification, Characterization, and Investigations of Two Important Histidine Residues". Biochemistry. 37 (42): 14989–14997. doi:10.1021/bi9816047. ISSN 0006-2960.