Adenylate kinase
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Adenylate kinase 1
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| Identifiers | |
| Symbol(s) | AK1 |
| Entrez | 203 |
| OMIM | 103000 |
| RefSeq | NM_000476 |
| UniProt | P00568 |
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| EC number | 2.7.4.3 |
| Locus | Chr. 9 q34.1 |
Adenylate kinase (also known as ADK or myokinase) is a phosphotransferase enzyme that catalyzes the production of ATP from ADP, a process involved in cellular energy homeostasis (see the "Biological homeostasis" section of "Homeostasis"). The reaction catalyzed is:
2 ADP ⇔ ATP + AMP
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