Hexokinase deficiency
Encyclopedia
Hexokinase deficiency is an anemia
-causing condition associated with inadequate hexokinase
. Specifically, the HK1
isozyme is involved.
Anemia
Anemia is a decrease in number of red blood cells or less than the normal quantity of hemoglobin in the blood. However, it can include decreased oxygen-binding ability of each hemoglobin molecule due to deformity or lack in numerical development as in some other types of hemoglobin...
-causing condition associated with inadequate hexokinase
Hexokinase
A hexokinase is an enzyme that phosphorylates a six-carbon sugar, a hexose, to a hexose phosphate. In most tissues and organisms, glucose is the most important substrate of hexokinases, and glucose-6-phosphate the most important product....
. Specifically, the HK1
HK1
Hexokinase-1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the HK1 gene.-Further reading:...
isozyme is involved.