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  • Title: Source of ATP for hexokinase-catalyzed glucose phosphorylation in tumor cells: dependence on the rate of oxidative phosphorylation relative to that of extramitochondrial ATP generation.
    Author: Shinohara Y, Sagawa I, Ichihara J, Yamamoto K, Terao K, Terada H.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1997 Apr 11; 1319(2-3):319-30. PubMed ID: 9131053.
    Abstract:
    We isolated highly intact and tightly coupled mitochondria from the rat ascites hepatoma cell line AH130 by disruption of the cell membrane by nitrogen cavitation. These isolated mitochondria were found to have essentially the same functional properties as rat liver mitochondria, but unlike the latter, hexokinase (HK) was bound to their membrane. Using the tumor mitochondrial preparation, we examined the source of ATP for phosphorylation of glucose by HK under conditions in which intra- and extramitochondrial ATP-generation systems operated separately or together. Results showed that the membrane-bound HK utilized ATP derived from the most efficiently operating ATP generation system, i.e., oxidative phosphorylation. However, when the rate of extramitochondrial ATP generation was much greater than that of oxidative phosphorylation, HK used ATP from the extramitochondrial ATP-generation system.
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