hexokinase

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hexokinase - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hexokinase \Hex"o*kin"ase\, n. [Hexose + -kinase.] (Biochem.)
     an enzyme catalyzing the transfer of a phosphate residue from
     ATP to a hexose, as in the formation of glucose-6-phosphate
     from glucose.
     [PJC]