glycerol kinase

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glycerol kinase dimer, E.Coli

Identifiers
EC number| 2.7.1.30
Databases
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NCBI| proteins
glycerol kinase

Identifiers
Symbol| GK
Entrez| 2710
HUGO| 4289
OMIM| 300474
RefSeq| NM_000167
UniProt| P32189
Other data
EC number| 2.7.1.30
Locus| Chr. 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:

* 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.

## Contents

* 1 Enzyme regulation
* 2 Structure
* 3 See also
* 4 External links
* 5 References

## Enzyme regulation

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

## Structure

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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[update], there were 20 structures of this protein in the PDB, most of which are homodimeric.

## See also

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* Glycerol
* Kinase

## External links

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* Glycerol+Kinase at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

## References

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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.

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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

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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)|

* Ribose-phosphate diphosphokinase
* Thiamine diphosphokinase

2.7.7: nucleotidyltransferase
(PO4-nucleoside)|

| Polymerase|

| DNA polymerase|

DNA-directed DNA polymerase

III

RNA-directed DNA polymerase
Reverse transcriptase

Telomerase

DNA nucleotidylexotransferase/Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase

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RNA nucleotidyltransferase|

RNA polymerase/DNA-directed RNA polymerase
RNA polymerase I

III

Primase
RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

PNPase

Phosphorolytic
3' to 5' exoribonuclease|

* RNase PH
* PNPase

Nucleotidyltransferase|

* UTP—glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
* Galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase

Guanylyltransferase|

* mRNA capping enzyme

Other|

* Recombinase (Integrase)
* Transposase

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

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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

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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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Enzymes

Activity|

* Active site
* Binding site
* Catalytic triad
* Oxyanion hole
* Enzyme promiscuity
* Catalytically perfect enzyme
* Coenzyme
* 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)

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