pyruvate kinase, liver and RBC

Symbol

PKLR (may also be known as: None)

Organism

Human

Description

The protein encoded by this gene is a pyruvate kinase that catalyzes the transphosphorylation of phohsphoenolpyruvate into pyruvate and ATP, which is the rate-limiting step of glycolysis. Defects in this enzyme, due to gene mutations or genetic variations, are the common cause of chronic hereditary nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia (CNSHA or HNSHA). Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Orthologs

SymbolSpecies
pyk-1 Caenorhabditis elegans
PyK Drosophila melanogaster
Pklr Mus musculus
Pklr Rattus norvegicus
PYK2 Saccharomyces cerevisiae
pyk1 Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Links to external resources

Changes associated with this gene

GO Terms

GO IDGO TermGO Category
GO:0001666 response to hypoxia biological_process
GO:0005975 carbohydrate metabolic process biological_process
GO:0006006 glucose metabolic process biological_process
GO:0006096 glycolysis biological_process
GO:0006112 energy reserve metabolic process biological_process
GO:0006754 ATP biosynthetic process biological_process
GO:0007584 response to nutrient biological_process
GO:0009408 response to heat biological_process
GO:0009749 response to glucose stimulus biological_process
GO:0010226 response to lithium ion biological_process
GO:0014070 response to organic cyclic compound biological_process
GO:0031018 endocrine pancreas development biological_process
GO:0031325 positive regulation of cellular metabolic process biological_process
GO:0032869 cellular response to insulin stimulus biological_process
GO:0033198 response to ATP biological_process
GO:0042866 pyruvate biosynthetic process biological_process
GO:0044281 small molecule metabolic process biological_process
GO:0051591 response to cAMP biological_process
GO:0051707 response to other organism biological_process
GO:0005625 soluble fraction cellular_component
GO:0005829 cytosol cellular_component
GO:0000166 nucleotide binding molecular_function
GO:0000287 magnesium ion binding molecular_function
GO:0004743 pyruvate kinase activity molecular_function
GO:0005524 ATP binding molecular_function
GO:0016740 transferase activity molecular_function
GO:0030955 potassium ion binding molecular_function