HK1
Hexokinase-1
Also known as: HXK1_HUMAN
Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene
Protein identityUniProt · HPA
- UniProt accession
- P19367
- Gene
- HK1
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000156515
- Chromosome
- 10
- Canonical length
- 917 aa
- Protein class
- Cancer-related genes, Disease related genes, Enzymes, Human disease related genes, Metabolic proteins, Plasma proteins, Potential drug targets, Predicted intracellular proteins
- Subcellular location
- Mitochondria
OverviewNCBI Gene
Hexokinases phosphorylate glucose to produce glucose-6-phosphate, the first step in most glucose metabolism pathways. This gene encodes a ubiquitous form of hexokinase which localizes to the outer membrane of mitochondria. Mutations in this gene have been associated with hemolytic anemia due to hexokinase deficiency. Alternative splicing of this gene results in several transcript variants which encode different isoforms, some of which are tissue-specific. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2016]
Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt
917 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.
>P19367|HK1
1 MIAAQLLAYY FTELKDDQVK KIDKYLYAMR LSDETLIDIM TRFRKEMKNG LSRDFNPTAT
61 VKMLPTFVRS IPDGSEKGDF IALDLGGSSF RILRVQVNHE KNQNVHMESE VYDTPENIVH
121 GSGSQLFDHV AECLGDFMEK RKIKDKKLPV GFTFSFPCQQ SKIDEAILIT WTKRFKASGV
181 EGADVVKLLN KAIKKRGDYD ANIVAVVNDT VGTMMTCGYD DQHCEVGLII GTGTNACYME
241 ELRHIDLVEG DEGRMCINTE WGAFGDDGSL EDIRTEFDRE IDRGSLNPGK QLFEKMVSGM
301 YLGELVRLIL VKMAKEGLLF EGRITPELLT RGKFNTSDVS AIEKNKEGLH NAKEILTRLG
361 VEPSDDDCVS VQHVCTIVSF RSANLVAATL GAILNRLRDN KGTPRLRTTV GVDGSLYKTH
421 PQYSRRFHKT LRRLVPDSDV RFLLSESGSG KGAAMVTAVA YRLAEQHRQI EETLAHFHLT
481 KDMLLEVKKR MRAEMELGLR KQTHNNAVVK MLPSFVRRTP DGTENGDFLA LDLGGTNFRV
541 LLVKIRSGKK RTVEMHNKIY AIPIEIMQGT GEELFDHIVS CISDFLDYMG IKGPRMPLGF
601 TFSFPCQQTS LDAGILITWT KGFKATDCVG HDVVTLLRDA IKRREEFDLD VVAVVNDTVG
661 TMMTCAYEEP TCEVGLIVGT GSNACYMEEM KNVEMVEGDQ GQMCINMEWG AFGDNGCLDD
721 IRTHYDRLVD EYSLNAGKQR YEKMISGMYL GEIVRNILID FTKKGFLFRG QISETLKTRG
781 IFETKFLSQI ESDRLALLQV RAILQQLGLN STCDDSILVK TVCGVVSRRA AQLCGAGMAA
841 VVDKIRENRG LDRLNVTVGV DGTLYKLHPH FSRIMHQTVK ELSPKCNVSF LLSEDGSGKG
901 AALITAVGVR LRTEASSLocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA
Whether an antibody against HK1 can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.
- Antibody reachability
- Other membrane
- Secreted
- No
- Transmembrane segments
- 0
- Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
- 0.21
- Highest tissue expression
- 184 nTPM
Expression across tissuesHPA
Tissue
- skeletal muscle: 184 nTPM
- heart muscle: 142 nTPM
- retina: 142 nTPM
- tongue: 136 nTPM
- esophagus: 124 nTPM
- cerebellum: 110 nTPM
Single-cell type
- late spermatids: 1,798 nCPM
- retinal horizontal cells: 717 nCPM
- early spermatids: 442 nCPM
- platelets: 380 nCPM
- esophageal suprabasal cells: 356 nCPM
- prostatic hillock cells: 312 nCPM
Immune cell
- non-classical monocyte: 137 nTPM
- intermediate monocyte: 125 nTPM
- total PBMC: 110 nTPM
- classical monocyte: 89 nTPM
- myeloid DC: 82 nTPM
- basophil: 71 nTPM
Brain region
- cerebral cortex: 139 nTPM
- pons: 135 nTPM
- basal ganglia: 118 nTPM
- hypothalamus: 117 nTPM
- choroid plexus: 114 nTPM
- midbrain: 113 nTPM
DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed
Four sources answering four different questions about HK1.
Disease | AllUniProt
Conditions HK1 is implicated in, by any mechanism.
- Anemia, congenital, non-spherocytic hemolytic, 5 (CNSHA5) MIM:235700
- Neuropathy, hereditary motor and sensory, Russe type (HMSNR) MIM:605285
- Retinitis pigmentosa 79 (RP79) MIM:617460
- Neurodevelopmental disorder with visual defects and brain anomalies (NEDVIBA) MIM:618547
Disease | GeneticClinVar
38 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 849 ClinVar records.
Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.
- Neurodevelopmental disorder with visual defects and brain anomalies
- Hemolytic anemia due to hexokinase deficiency
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4G
- Retinitis pigmentosa 79
- Retinal dystrophy
Disease | ImmuneIEDB
Conditions an epitope on HK1 was assayed in.
- type 1 diabetes mellitus T cell
Disease | AutoantibodyPubMed
Conditions in which antibodies against HK1 are reported. Each links to that disease's full target list.
ReferencesPubMed · IEDB
Publications for HK1 from three distinct lines of evidence, kept separate because they answer different questions: whether antibodies are directed at the protein, whether a B-cell epitope has been mapped on it, and whether a T-cell epitope has. Each is labelled with its source.
Reference: AutoantibodyPubMed
5 publications
- Novel Anti-Hexokinase 1 Antibodies Are Associated With Poor Prognosis in Patients With Primary Biliary Cholangitis.
2020 · Am J Gastroenterol · RCR 1.7 · 27 citations - Autoimmune Markers in Primary Biliary Cholangitis.
2024 · Clin Liver Dis · RCR 1.5 · 7 citations - Detection of anti-kelch-like 12 and anti-hexokinase 1 antibodies in primary biliary cholangitis patients in China.
2021 · Rev Esp Enferm Dig · RCR 0.7 · 9 citations - Anti-Hexokinase 1 Antibody as a Novel Serum Biomarker of a Subgroup of Diabetic Macular Edema.
2019 · Sci Rep · RCR 0.4 · 7 citations - Serum autoantibodies against hexokinase 1 manifest secondary to diabetic macular edema onset.
2024 · Diabetes Res Clin Pract
Reference: T cellIEDB
1 publication
- The antigen presentation landscape of cytokine-stressed human pancreatic islets.
2025 · Cell Rep · RCR 2.5 · 8 citations
Sources: PubMed — antigen-level antibody evidence from a custom retrieval. Records matching a controlled set of autoantibody terms (the MeSH descriptors Autoantibodies and Autoantigens, with title and abstract term variants) were obtained through NCBI E-utilities, and their titles and abstracts parsed for constructions that direct an antibody at a named protein rather than for co-occurrence. Captured names were resolved against UniProt nomenclature and each antigen adjudicated individually against the source text. IEDB — curated epitope assays from the Immune Epitope Database (Vita et al., Nucleic Acids Research 2019). Bibliographic records from PubMed and MeSH, U.S. National Library of Medicine; citation metrics from NIH iCite (Hutchins et al., PLoS Biology 2016). Titles link to PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced here. The NLM does not endorse this analysis.
Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap
Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.
- gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
- 0.33
- gnomAD pLI
- 0.91
- gnomAD missense Z
- 3.23
- DepMap mean gene effect
- -0.09
- DepMap dependency class
- selective
Cancer expressionTCGA
Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 4% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).
OntologyGO
Biological processes
- canonical glycolysis
- carbohydrate phosphorylation
- establishment of protein localization to mitochondrion
- fructose 6-phosphate metabolic process
- GDP-mannose biosynthetic process
- GDP-mannose biosynthetic process from mannose
- glucose 6-phosphate metabolic process
- glucose metabolic process
- glycolytic process
- inflammatory response
- innate immune response
- intracellular glucose homeostasis
- maintenance of protein location in mitochondrion
- mannose metabolic process
- positive regulation of cytokine production involved in immune response
- positive regulation of interleukin-1 beta production
Molecular functions
- ATP binding
- D-glucose binding
- fructokinase activity
- glucokinase activity
- hexokinase activity
- mannokinase activity
- peptidoglycan binding
- glucosamine kinase activity
Cellular components
Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro
KeywordsUniProt
- Acetylation
- Allosteric enzyme
- ATP-binding
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Cytoplasm
- Glycolysis
- Hereditary hemolytic anemia
- Immunity
- Inflammatory response
- Innate immunity
- Intellectual disability
- Kinase
- Membrane
- Mitochondrion
- Mitochondrion outer membrane
- Neurodegeneration
- Neuropathy
- Nucleotide-binding
- Phosphoprotein
- Repeat
- Retinitis pigmentosa
- Transferase
InteractionsUniProt · HPA
Protein binding partners of HK1 in the human serome: UniProt-annotated complex subunits plus reported interactors. Each links to its own Seroatlas record.
Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis
Seroatlas reads HK1 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against HK1 could matter depends on whether native HK1 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.
HK1 is annotated as predominantly intracellular. Intracellular proteins are common autoantibody markers, becoming visible to the immune system after cell injury or altered processing, but are usually markers of disease rather than direct drivers.
Annotation status
The present source text does not explicitly label HK1 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.
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