title: An unusual high-Km hexokinase is expressed in the mhAT3F hepatoma cell line.
abstract: In most hepatoma cells, the high-Km GLUT2/glucokinase proteins are replaced by the ubiquitous low-Km GLUT1/hexokinase type I proteins. In the mhAT3F hepatoma cells, the stimulatory effect of glucose on gene expression and glycogen accumulation was not maximal at 5 mmol/liter glucose. This response to high glucose is observed in mhAT3F cells, where GLUT2 was expressed, but not glucokinase (assessed by Northern blotting and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction). A low-Km hexokinase activity (19.6 +/- 3.8 milliunits/mg of protein) was present, but a high-Km (40 mmol/liter) hexokinase activity (13.9 +/- 2.5 milliunits/mg) was also detected in mhAT3F cells. The high-Km hexokinase activity was dependent on both ATP (or PPi) and glucose in the assay and was recovered in a 10-50-kDa fraction after filtration. A 30-kDa protein was detected using an anti-glucokinase antibody and localized by confocal microscopy at the same sites as glucokinase in hepatocytes. In FAO cells, the high-Km hexokinase activity and 30-kDa protein were not found. We conclude that a high-Km hexokinase activity is present in mhAT3F cells. This might explain why the effects of glucose on gene expression were not maximal at a glucose concentration of 5 mmol/liter. A 30-kDa protein identified using an anti-glucokinase antibody may be responsible for this activity present in mhAT3F cells.
authors.affiliation: Endocrinologie Métabolisme et Développement, CNRS UPR1524, 9, rue Jules Hetzel, 92190 Meudon Bellevue, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rencurel
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Muñoz-Alonso
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Girard
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leturque
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000201:enzymology*; D005260:Female; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000187:drug effects*; D005947:Glucose / Q000494:pharmacology; D051273:Glucose Transporter Type 2; D006593:Hexokinase / Q000378:metabolism*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007700:Kinetics; D051379:Mice; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D009711:Nucleotides / Q000494:pharmacology; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D051273:Glucose Transporter Type 2; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins; D009711:Nucleotides; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D006593:Hexokinase; D005947:Glucose