ReviewFrontiers in physiology2019
The Central Role of Glucokinase in Glucose Homeostasis: A Perspective 50 Years After Demonstrating the Presence of the Enzyme in Islets of Langerhans.
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- Influence of biotin intervention on glycemic control and lipid profile in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of Dorzagliatin, a Glucokinase Activator, on α- and β-Cell Function in Individuals With Impaired and Normal Glucose Tolerance.Diabetes · 2025Trial
- Impact of the hepatoselective glucokinase activator TTP399 on ketoacidosis during insulin withdrawal in people with type 1 diabetes.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2022Trial
- Dorzagliatin in drug-naïve patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial.Nature medicine · 2022Trial
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- Glucokinase activity suppresses hepatic cholesterol synthesis and triglyceride accumulation: A new model for the effects of the GKRP P466L common human variant.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Contrasting Effects of Chronic Glucokinase Activation and Inhibition on Pancreatic Beta-Cell Function.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026Article
- The return of metabolism: biochemistry and physiology of glycolysis.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Mitochondria as Epigenetic Regulators of β-Cell Identity and Plasticity: A Metabolo-Epigenetic Perspective.Cells · 2026Review
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- Modelling the effects of human SUR1 R1420H variation on insulin secretory function using isogenic iPSC-derived pancreatic islets.Diabetologia · 2026Article
- Aging Effects on Metabolic Sensor and Glycogen Metabolism in Old Male versus Female Rat Primary Hypothalamic Astrocyte Cultures.Neuroglia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Bridging pancreatic and hepatic development: overlapping genes and their role in diabetes.Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025Review
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Abstract
It is hypothesized that glucokinase (GCK) is the glucose sensor not only for regulation of insulin release by pancreatic β-cells, but also for the rest of the cells that contribute to glucose homeostasis in mammals. This includes other cells in endocrine pancreas (α- and δ-cells), adrenal gland, glucose sensitive neurons, entero-endocrine cells, and cells in the anterior pituitary. Glucose transport is by facilitated diffusion and is not rate limiting. Once inside, glucose is phosphorylated to glucose-6-phosphate by GCK in a reaction that is dependent on glucose throughout the physiological range of concentrations, is irreversible, and not product inhibited. High glycerol phosphate shuttle, pyruvate dehydrogenase, and pyruvate carboxylase activities, combined with low pentose-P shunt, lactate dehydrogenase, plasma membrane monocarboxylate transport, and glycogen synthase activities constrain glucose-6-phosphate to being metabolized through glycolysis. Under these conditions, glycolysis produces mostly pyruvate and little lactate. Pyruvate either enters the citric acid cycle through pyruvate dehydrogenase or is carboxylated by pyruvate carboxylase. Reducing equivalents from glycolysis enter oxidative phosphorylation through both the glycerol phosphate shuttle and citric acid cycle. Raising glucose concentration increases intramitochondrial [NADH]/[NAD
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