Murine hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase: a bifunctional enzyme with broad substrate specificity and 6-phosphogluconolactonase activity

Arch Biochem Biophys. 2003 Jul 15;415(2):229-34. doi: 10.1016/s0003-9861(03)00229-7.

Abstract

Murine hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase has been purified from liver microsomes by affinity chromatography on 2('),5(')-ADP-Sepharose. The purified enzyme has 6-phosphogluconolactonase activity and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity and has a native molecular mass of 178 kDa and a subunit molecular mass of 89 kDa. Glucose 6-phosphate, galactose 6-phosphate, 2-deoxyglucose 6-phosphate, glucosamine 6-phosphate, and glucose 6-sulfate are substrates for murine hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, with either NADP or deamino-NADP as coenzyme. This study confirms that hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase is a bifunctional enzyme which can catalyze the first two reactions of the pentose phosphate pathway.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Carbohydrate Dehydrogenases / chemistry*
  • Carbohydrate Dehydrogenases / isolation & purification*
  • Carbohydrate Dehydrogenases / metabolism
  • Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases / chemistry*
  • Coenzymes
  • Enzyme Activation
  • Glucose / chemistry
  • Glucosephosphates / chemistry
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Microsomes, Liver / chemistry*
  • Microsomes, Liver / enzymology
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Molecular Weight
  • NADP / chemistry
  • Pentose Phosphate Pathway
  • Substrate Specificity

Substances

  • Coenzymes
  • Glucosephosphates
  • glucose 6-(hydrogen sulfate)
  • NADP
  • Carbohydrate Dehydrogenases
  • galactose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
  • Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases
  • 6-phosphogluconolactonase
  • Glucose