Journal
PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 115-127Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00034.2021
Keywords
GLUT4; glucose; hexokinase; insulin; muscle
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [DK054902, DK050277, DK020593, DK059637]
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Research conducted over the last 50 years has provided insights into the mechanisms of insulin-stimulated glucose transport in skeletal muscle cells, highlighting the importance of glucose phosphorylation by hexokinases for glucose uptake. However, the regulation of insulin-regulated hexokinase II remains poorly understood.
Research conducted over the last 50 yr has provided insight into the mechanisms by which insulin stimulates glucose transport across the skeletal muscle cell membrane Transport alone, however, does not result in net glucose uptake as free glucose equilibrates across the cell membrane and is not metabolized. Glucose uptake requires that glucose is phosphorylated by hexokinases. Phosphorylated glucose cannot leave the cell and is the substrate for metabolism. It is indisputable that glucose phosphorylation is essential for glucose uptake. Major advances have been made in defining the regulation of the insulin-stimulated glucose transporter (GLUT4) in skeletal muscle. By contrast, the insulin-regulated hexokinase (hexokinase II) parallels Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken. Here the case is made that an understanding of glucose phosphorylation by hexokinase II is necessary to define the regulation of skeletal muscle glucose uptake in health and insulin resistance. Results of studies from different physiological disciplines that have elegantly described how hexokinase II can be regulated are summarized to provide a framework for potential application to skeletal muscle. Mechanisms by which hexokinase II is regulated in skeletal muscle await rigorous examination
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