Order-disorder transitions govern kinetic cooperativity and allostery of monomeric human glucokinase.

Glucokinase (GCK) catalyzes the rate-limiting step of glucose catabolism in the pancreas, where it functions as the body's principal glucose sensor. GCK dysfunction leads to several potentially fatal diseases including maturity-onset diabetes of the young type II (MODY-II) and persistent hypogl...

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Main Authors: Mioara Larion, Roberto Kopke Salinas, Lei Bruschweiler-Li, Brian G Miller, Rafael Brüschweiler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001452&type=printable
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