title: Hexose metabolism in pancreatic islets (time course of 3HOH production from tritiated D-glucose in models with and without enzyme-to-enzyme tunnelling).
abstract: The fate of D-[2-3H] glucose and D-[5-3H] glucose in pancreatic islets was simulated in models with or without enzyme-to-enzyme tunnelling of hexose 6-phosphates in the glycolytic cascade. Satisfactory values for the recovery of phosphoglucoisomerase activity, for the ratio between unlabelled D-glucose 6-phosphate and D-fructose 6-phosphate, and for the time course of both 3HOH production from D-[2-3H] glucose and tritiated D-fructose 1,6-bisphosphate generation from D-[5-3H] glucose were only reached in models with enzyme-to-enzyme tunnelling, with emphasis on the coupling between phosphoglucoisomerase and phosphofructokinase.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Brussels Free University, Belgium.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Malaisse
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bodur
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D005956:Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase / Q000378:metabolism*; D006019:Glycolysis; D006601:Hexoses / Q000378:metabolism*; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D014316:Tritium
chemical_list: D006601:Hexoses; D014316:Tritium; D005956:Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase; D005947:Glucose