Sugar-sensing swodkoreceptors and swodkocrine signaling

Abstract

Sugars are one of the major metabolites and are essential for nucleic acid synthesis and energy production. In addition, sugars can act as signaling molecules. To study sugar signaling at the systemic level, there is an urgent need to systematically identify sugar-sensing proteins and nucleic acids. I propose the terms “swodkoreceptor” and “swodkocrine signaling,” derived from the Polish word “słodki” meaning “sweet,” to comprise all sugar-sensing proteins and signaling events, respectively, regardless of their cellular location and signaling domains. This proposal is intended to facilitate the inclusion of proteins such as the Escherichia coli LacI repressor as an allolactose receptor, human glucokinase regulatory protein (GCKR) as a fructose receptor, and other sugar-binding based allosterically regulated enzymes and transcription factors as sugar-sensing receptors. In addition, enzyme-interacting proteins whose interaction state is regulated by sugar binding have also been proposed as sugar receptors. The systemic study of protein- and nucleic-acid-based swodkoreceptors may help to identify organelle-specific swodkoreceptors and to also address receptor duality. The study of intra- and inter-organism swodkocrine signaling and its crosstalk with gasocrine signaling may help to understand the etiology of diseases due to dysregulation in sugar homeostasis and signaling.

Keywords

chemoreceptor / glucose sensor / glucose receptor / glucokinase / glucokinase regulatory protein (GKRP) / protocell / protoorganelle / protoreceptor / receptor duality / receptor multimodality / riboceptor / ribozyme / sugar receptor / sugar sensor / taste receptor / enzyme receptor duality

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