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Hexokinase

Hexokinase is the first step when your cell burns sugar for energy. It tags glucose so it cannot escape the cell.

Hexokinase: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P19367, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

It works in almost every living thing on Earth.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P19367. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P19367.

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