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N-acetylhexosamine 1-kinase

Field	Value
Name	N-acetylhexosamine 1-kinase
EC_number	2.7.1.162

N-acetylhexosamine 1-kinase (, NahK, LnpB, N-acetylgalactosamine/N-acetylglucosamine 1-kinase) is an enzyme with systematic name ATP:N-acetyl-D-hexosamine 1-phosphotransferase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

: ATP + N-acetyl-D-hexosamine \rightleftharpoons ADP + N-acetyl-alpha-D-hexosamine 1-phosphate

This enzyme is involved in the lacto-N-biose I/galacto-N-biose degradation pathway in the probiotic bacterium Bifidobacterium longum.

References

(October 2007). "Identification of N-acetylhexosamine 1-kinase in the complete lacto-N-biose I/galacto-N-biose metabolic pathway in Bifidobacterium longum". Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

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