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Phosphorylation of chicken brain-type creatine kinase affects a physiologically important kinetic parameter and gives rise to protein microheterogeneity in vivo

Published inFEBS letters, vol. 269, no. 2, p. 457-464
Publication date1990
Abstract

In addition to the two monomer subunits of chicken brain-type creatine kinase (B-CK, EC, 2.7.3.2), termed Bb (basic) and Ba (acidic), another subspecies called Bb* was identified by chromatofocussing in the presence of 8 M urea (Quest et al., ). The latter low abundance protein species, isolated from tissue extracts, comigrated on 2D-gels with three minor species (Bb1-3), initially identified in immunoprecipitated, [35S]methionine labeled in vitro translation products of cDNA coding for the basic monomer Bb. During in vitro translation experiments in the presence of [32P]-gamma-ATP, Bb1-3 were labeled while phosphatase treatment eliminated these minor species. It is concluded that Bb* is identical to Bb1-3 and represents phosphorylated derivatives of Bb. B-CK dimer populations from different tissues were separated by ion-exchange chromatography and the Km values of the resulting fractions were determined under phospho-creatine (CP)-limiting conditions. In fractions containing only Bb and Bb* two kinetically different enzyme species were detected (Km values for CP = 1.6 mM and 0.8 mM), while fractions containing B-CK dimers composed of the major Ba and Bb monomers, but no Bb*, were homogeneous in this respect (Km for CP = 1.6 mM). Phosphorylation of Bb to yield Bb* is concluded to reduce the Km of B-CK dimers for CP by about 50%. This Km shift is within the range of CP concentrations found in tissues expressing the B-CK isoform and may therefore be of physiological relevance.

Keywords
  • Animals
  • Brain/enzymology
  • Chickens
  • Creatine Kinase/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism
  • Gizzard/enzymology
  • Isoenzymes
  • Macromolecular Substances
  • Muscle, Smooth/enzymology
  • Myocardium/enzymology
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases/metabolism
  • Phosphorylation
  • Protein Biosynthesis
  • RNA, Messenger/genetics
  • Transcription, Genetic
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QUEST, A F et al. Phosphorylation of chicken brain-type creatine kinase affects a physiologically important kinetic parameter and gives rise to protein microheterogeneity in vivo. In: FEBS letters, 1990, vol. 269, n° 2, p. 457–464. doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)81215-a
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