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A multifactorial quantitative analysis of oscillations in glycolysis was conducted in the postmicrosomal supernatant of rat muscle homogenates incubated in the presence of yeast hexokinase. Oscillations in adenine nucleotides, D-fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, triose phosphates, L-glycerol 3-phosphate, 3HOH generation from D-[5-3H]glucose, NADH and L-lactate production were documented. The occurrence of such oscillations were found to depend mainly on the balance between the consumption of ATP associated with the phosphorylation of D-glucose, as catalyzed by both yeast and muscle hexokinase, and the net production of ATP resulting from the further catabolism of D-fructose 6-phosphate, as initiated by activation of phosphofructokinase. The oscillatory pattern was suppressed in the presence of D-fructose 2,6-bisphosphate. It is proposed that the quantitative information gathered in this study may set the scene for further studies in extracts of cells other than myocytes, e. g. hepatocytes and pancreatic islet cells, in which no oscillation of glycolysis was so far observed.
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Marynissen, G., Sener, A. & Malaisse, W.J. Oscillations in glycolysis: multifactorial quantitative analysis in muscle extract. Mol Cell Biochem 113, 105–121 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00231530
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00231530