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Rat erythrocytes, in contrast to red blood cells from other mammals, have been shown to contain only one hexokinase isozymic form identified as type I by chromatographic and kinetic properties. Rat reticulocytes contain 3.6-times the hexokinase activity found in mature erythrocytes but exactly the same isozyme. By a combination of ion-exchange chromatography, dye-ligand chromatography and high-pressure liquid chromatography the rat erythrocyte hexokinase was purified more than 84 000-fold to a specific activity of 143 units/mg protein and shown to be homogeneous by sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis. The native protein showed a molecular weight of 100 000 by gel-filtration and an apparent molecular weight of 98 000 under denaturating conditions in sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis. The isoelectric point was shown to be 6.3 pH units. This data provides evidence of only one form of hexokinase in the erythrocytes of a mammal.
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Serafini, G., Magnani, M., Stocchi, V. et al. Rat red blood cell hexokinase purification, properties and age-dependence. Mol Cell Biochem 69, 179–185 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00224765
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