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Intracellular distribution of hexokinase in rabbit brain

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Hexokinase in mammalian brain is particulate and usually considered to be bound to the outer mitochondrial membrane. Investigation of rabbit brain mitochondria prepared either by differential centrifugation and discontinuous density gradient centrifugation has provided evidence that this particulate fraction also contains endoplasmic vesicles and synaptosomes. Solubilization of the bound hexokinase by different combinations of detergents and metabolites has proved the existence of different hexokinase binding sites. Electron microscopic examination of hexokinase location by immuno-gold labelling techniques confirmed, that hexokinase is indeed predominantly bound to mitochondria but that a significant proportion is also bound to non-mitochondrial membranes. Attempts to quantify this distribution were unsuccessful since different figures were obtained using anti-hexokinase IgG affinity purified on immobilized native or denatured hexokinase. Binding studies of the purified rabbit brain mitochondrial hexokinase to rabbit liver mitochondria and microsomes confirmed that in addition to a binding site on mitochondria there is another binding site on microsomes. The N-terminal sequence of hexokinase has been shown to be important for mitochondria binding and also for microsome binding. These results suggest that the intracellular localization of hexokinase in rabbit brain is not exclusively mitochondrial and that the metabolic role of this enzyme should be reconsidered by including a binding site on the endoplasmic reticulum.

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  1. Istituto di Chimica Biologica ‘G. Fornaini’, Università degli Studi, Via Saffi, 2, 61029, Urbino, Italy

    Mauro Magnani, Giordano Serafini, Rita Crinelli & Antonella Antonelli

  2. Istituto di Istologia, Università degli Studi, Via Saffi, 2, 61029, Urbino, Italy

    Manuela Malatesta & Giancarlo Gazzanelli

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Magnani, M., Serafini, G., Crinelli, R. et al. Intracellular distribution of hexokinase in rabbit brain. Mol Cell Biochem 122, 123–132 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01076096

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