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Designing a Western blot for Hexokinase-4? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
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Facts about Hexokinase-4.
The role of GCK is to provide G6P for the synthesis of glycogen. Pancreatic glucokinase plays an important role in modulating insulin secretion.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | GCK |
| Uniprot: | P35557 |
| Entrez: | 2645 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| hexokinase family |

EC 2.7.1; EC 2.7.1.2; FGQTL3; GCK; GK; GLK; glucokinase (hexokinase 4); Glucokinase; Hexokinase-4; Hexokinase-D; HHF3; HK4; HK4pancreatic isozyme; HKIV; HXKP; LGLK; maturity onset diabetes of the young 2; MODY2
Mass (kDA):
52.191 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 7p13 |
| Sequence: | 7; NC_000007.14 (44143213..44189439, complement) |
Isoform 1 is expressed in pancreas. Isoform 2 and isoform 3 is expressed in liver.
Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Mitochondrion. Under low glucose concentrations, GCK associates with GCKR and the inactive complex is recruited to the hepatocyte nucleus.





PMID: 1354840 by Tanizawa Y., et al. Human glucokinase gene: isolation, structural characterization, and identification of a microsatellite repeat polymorphism.
PMID: 1871135 by Tanizawa Y., et al. Human liver glucokinase gene: cloning and sequence determination of two alternatively spliced cDNAs.
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