# Nuclide record glut-hexokinase (target). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
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@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/targets/glut-hexokinase/>
  a schema:BioChemEntity ;
  nuclide:kind "target" ;
  schema:identifier "glut-hexokinase" ;
  schema:name "GLUT1 / hexokinase (glucose metabolism)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "GLUT1"@en, "SLC2A1"@en, "hexokinase II"@en, "HK2"@en, "SLC2A1" ;
  schema:description "The two-step system cells use to pull in and lock up glucose for energy. Many cancers rely on this system much more heavily than normal tissue, and a radioactive sugar look-alike called FDG exploits it to light up tumours on a PET scan."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/targets/glut-hexokinase/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6508962/>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5120247/>, <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557653/>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6126440/> ;
  nuclide:tag "metabolism", "glycolysis", "pan-cancer" ;
  nuclide:targetClass "enzyme" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/fludeoxyglucose-f18/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/fdg-pet/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/suv/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/f-18/> .