Adenylate kinase

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Adenylate kinase 1
Identifiers
Symbol AK1
HUGO 361
Entrez 203
OMIM 103000
RefSeq NM_000476
UniProt P00568
Other data
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 ADPATP + AMP

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