title: The isolation and preliminary characterization of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine kinase from rat kidney and liver.
abstract: 1. Procedures for the extensive purification in high yield of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine kinase from rat liver and kidney are described. The separation of this enzyme from hepatic glucokinase depended primarily on their differing behaviour on an affinity column of Sepharose--N-(6-aminohexanoyl)-2-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucopyranose. 2. This N-acetyl-D-glucosamine kinase also catalyses the phosphorylation of N-acetyl-D-mannosamine and, at a lower rate, several other sugar analogues, including D-glucose. 3. A comparison of the behaviour of the enzyme during gel filtration and electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide gels suggests that N-acetyl-D-glucosamine kinase is a symmetrical dimer of mol.wt. 80000.
mesh_terms: D000117:Acetylglucosamine / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002848:Chromatography, DEAE-Cellulose; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D007668:Kidney / Q000201:enzymology*; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D010770:Phosphotransferases / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor); D051381:Rats; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D010770:Phosphotransferases; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor); C018716:N-acetylglucosamine kinase; D000117:Acetylglucosamine