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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A newly discovered protein may play a role in the development of gestational diabetes, according to data published in Nature Communications.
Until now, researchers had identified four enzymes that catalyze energy production from food intake called hexokinases. This new study, however, indicates that there may be a fifth player on the hexokinase team, a protein dubbed HKDC1.
"This swims against the past 40 years of research and what we thought we knew," Tim Reddy, PhD, a senior author of the study and assistant professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke University, said in a press release. "Hexokinases are critical to basically all of our energy production. Finding a fifth one opens the door to more study into how we metabolize sugar, as well as genetic links to metabolic disorders."
http://www.endocrinologyadvisor.com/gestational-diabetes-and-new-protein/article/396704/
Until now, researchers had identified four enzymes that catalyze energy production from food intake called hexokinases. This new study, however, indicates that there may be a fifth player on the hexokinase team, a protein dubbed HKDC1.
"This swims against the past 40 years of research and what we thought we knew," Tim Reddy, PhD, a senior author of the study and assistant professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke University, said in a press release. "Hexokinases are critical to basically all of our energy production. Finding a fifth one opens the door to more study into how we metabolize sugar, as well as genetic links to metabolic disorders."
http://www.endocrinologyadvisor.com/gestational-diabetes-and-new-protein/article/396704/