What enzyme catalyzes the conversion of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate
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Answer: Hexokinase
This is the first step of glycolysis where ATP is converted to ADP.
Hexokinase is the initial enzyme of glycolysis, it catalyses the phosphorylation of glucose by ATP to glucose-6-P. It is one of the rate-limiting enzymes of glycolysis.
A hexokinase is an enzyme that phosphorylates hexoses (6 carbon ), forming hexose phosphate.
In most organisms, glucose is the most important substrate of hexokinases, and glucose-6-phosphate is the most important product.
Enzymes -a chemical substance produced by a living organism which acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction. It increses the rate of reaction by decreasing the activation energy.
Cycle glycolysis occurs in the absence of oxygen in the cytoplasm.
It is the most primitive type of cycle as it occurs in archae bacteria also.
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