scholarly journals Monoclonal-antibody studies of creatine kinase. The proteinase K-cleavage site

1985 ◽  
Vol 228 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
G E Morris ◽  
L C Frost ◽  
L P Head
Keyword(s):  
Creatine Kinase ◽  
Cleavage Site ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Proteinase K ◽  
Peptide Fragments ◽  
Muscle Creatine Kinase ◽  
Beta Turn ◽  
Acid Cleavage ◽  
Predictive Methods

Proteinase K cleaves a small peptide from native muscle-specific creatine kinase. We present evidence, from the binding of two monoclonal antibodies to formic acid-cleavage fragments and proteinase K-digest fragments of chick muscle creatine kinase, that the proteinase K-cleavage site is in the C-terminal region of the molecule. This specificity of proteinase K, which is not normally a highly specific enzyme, and the continued association of the two peptide fragments after cleavage suggest an unusual conformational feature in the cleavage-site region. By applying predictive methods for hydrophobicity and secondary structure to an amino acid sequence in this region, we suggest possible structural features at the cleavage site that are evidently conserved across avian and mammalian species. The most likely site is next to, or within, a beta-turn on the surface of the molecule.

scholarly journals Monoclonal antibody studies of creatine kinase. The ART epitope: evidence for an intermediate in protein folding

1989 ◽  
Vol 257 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
G E Morris
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Monoclonal Antibody ◽  
Creatine Kinase ◽  
Specific Binding ◽  
Trypsin Digestion ◽  
Proteinase K ◽  
Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ◽  
Muscle Creatine Kinase ◽  
Western Blots ◽  
Methionine Residues

Chemical cleavage at cysteine residues with nitrothiocyanobenzoic acid shows that the last 98 amino acids of the 380-amino-acid sequence of chick muscle creatine kinase are sufficient for binding of the monoclonal antibody CK-ART. Removal of the last 30 amino acids by cleavage at methionine residues with CNBr results in loss of CK-ART binding. CK-ART binding is also lost when these C-terminal methionine residues are oxidized to sulphoxide, but binding is regained on reduction. Proteinase K ‘nicks’ native CK at a single site near the C-terminus and two fragments of 327 amino acides and 53 amino acids can be separated by subsequent SDS or urea treatment. CK-ART still binds normally to ‘nicked’ CK, which is enzymically inactive. After treatment with either urea (in a competition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) or SDS (on Western blots), however, CK-ART binds to neither of the two fragments, although these treatments do not affect binding to intact CK. This suggests that parts of both CK fragments contribute to the CK-ART epitope. CK-ART is both species- and isoenzyme-specific, binding only to chick M-CK. The only C-terminal regions containing chick-specific sequences are residues 300-312 and residues 368-371, the latter group being close to the essential methionine residues. We suggest that one, or possibly both, of these regions is involved in forming the conformational epitope on the surface of the CK molecule which CK-ART recognizes. Native CK is resistant to trypsin digestion. The C-terminal half of urea-treated and partly-refolded CK is also resistant to trypsin digestion, whereas the N-terminal half is readily digested. The results suggest a C-terminal region which can refold more rapidly than the rest of the CK molecule and provide evidence for an intermediate in CK refolding.

scholarly journals Identification by protein microsequencing of a proteinase-V8-cleavage site in a folding intermediate of chick muscle creatine kinase

1991 ◽  
Vol 280 (3) ◽  
pp. 809-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
G E Morris ◽  
P J Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Creatine Kinase ◽  
Enzyme Activity ◽  
Glutamic Acid ◽  
Cleavage Site ◽  
Protein Refolding ◽  
Folding Intermediate ◽  
Muscle Creatine Kinase ◽  
Glutamic Acid Residue ◽  
Muscle Creatine

We have identified by protein microsequencing a glutamic acid residue (Glu-166) in a folding intermediate of chick muscle creatine kinase that is very sensitive to cleavage by staphylococcal proteinase V8. Most other glutamic acid residues, including Glu-168, are already partly protected from proteolytic attack at this stage. After the final stages of protein refolding, when enzyme activity is recovered, Glu-166 is also resistant to proteolysis.

scholarly journals Heterogeneity of rabbit muscle creatine kinase and limited proteolysis by proteinase K

1977 ◽  
Vol 167 (3) ◽  
pp. 731-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Williamson ◽  
J Greene ◽  
S Chérif ◽  
E J Milner-White
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Creatine Kinase ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Sodium Dodecyl ◽  
Limited Proteolysis ◽  
Proteinase K ◽  
Rabbit Muscle ◽  
Muscle Creatine Kinase ◽  
Muscle Creatine

By using sodium dodecyl sulphage/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis it was shown that rabbit muscle creatine kinase, both in a homogenate and purified, appears to be composed of a mixture of two peptides (mol.wts. 42100 and 40300) differing in length by about 15 amino acids. It is found that low concentrations of proteinase K from the fungus Tritirachium album can cleave about 38 amino acids from each chain of creatine kinase, leaving two large fragments (mol.wts 37700 and 35500). Scission of the whole enzyme was found to be concomitant with complete loss of enzyme activity. MgADP in the presence of absence of creatine slowed the rate of proteolysis by about 50%, but the transition-state analogue complex creatine-NO3—MgADP appeared to protect completely. The time course for the proteolytic inactivation in the presence of this complex, but not in its absence, was biphasic.

scholarly journals The effect of limited proteolysis on rabbit muscle creatine kinase

1981 ◽  
Vol 199 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
N C Price ◽  
S Murray ◽  
E J Milner-White
Keyword(s):  
Creatine Kinase ◽  
Limited Proteolysis ◽  
Gel Filtration ◽  
Thiol Group ◽  
Proteinase K ◽  
Cross Linking ◽  
Rabbit Muscle ◽  
Muscle Creatine Kinase ◽  
Transition State Analogue ◽  
Muscle Creatine

Creatine kinase from rabbit muscle is inactivated by limited proteolysis with proteinase K from Tritirachium album. Gel-filtration and cross-linking studies showed that the limited proteolysis did not affect the molecular weight of the enzyme under non-denaturing conditions, but did cause changes in the reactivity of the reactive thiol group on each subunit and in the ability of the enzyme to form a ‘transition-state analogue’ complex in the presence of magnesium acetate plus ADP plus creatinine plus NaNO3.

scholarly journals Complete cDNA-derived amino acid sequence of chick muscle creatine kinase.

1984 ◽  
Vol 259 (24) ◽  
pp. 15224-15227
Author(s):  
C P Ordahl ◽  
G L Evans ◽  
T A Cooper ◽  
G Kunz ◽  
J C Perriard
Keyword(s):  
Creatine Kinase ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Amino Acid Sequence ◽  
Muscle Creatine Kinase ◽  
Muscle Creatine

scholarly journals Molecular docking and density functional theory studies on creatine, guanidinoacetic acid, and their phosphorylated analogues binding to muscle creatine kinase

2020 ◽  
pp. 174751982097858
Author(s):  
M Vraneš ◽  
S Ostojić ◽  
Č Podlipnik ◽  
A Tot
Keyword(s):  
Density Functional Theory ◽  
Creatine Kinase ◽  
Molecular Docking ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Creatine Phosphate ◽  
Docking Studies ◽  
Muscle Creatine Kinase ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Guanidinoacetic Acid ◽  
Muscle Creatine

Comparative molecular docking studies on creatine and guanidinoacetic acid, as well as their phosphorylated analogues, creatine phosphate, and phosphorylated guanidinoacetic acid, are investigated. Docking and density functional theory studies are carried out for muscle creatine kinase. The changes in the geometries of the ligands before and after binding to the enzyme are investigated to explain the better binding of guanidinoacetic acid and phosphorylated guanidinoacetic acid compared to creatine and creatine phosphate.

Sodium barbital is a slow reversible inactivator of rabbit-muscle creatine kinase

2006 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-147
Author(s):  
Feng Shi ◽  
Tong-Jin Zhao ◽  
Hua-Wei He ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Xian-Gang Zeng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Creatine Kinase ◽  
Energy Homeostasis ◽  
Inactivation Kinetics ◽  
Rabbit Muscle ◽  
Muscle Creatine Kinase ◽  
Reversible Inactivation ◽  
Inhibition Effect ◽  
Sodium Barbital ◽  
Muscle Creatine ◽  
Detailed Kinetics

As a depressant of the central nervous system, the clinical effect of sodium barbital has been extensively studied. Here we report on sodium barbital as an inhibitor of rabbit-muscle creatine kinase (CK), which plays a significant role in energy homeostasis in the muscles. Although sodium barbital gradually inhibits the activity of CK with increased concentration, the inhibition effect can be completely reversed by dilution, indicating that the inactivation process is reversible. Detailed kinetics analysis, according to a previously presented theory, indicates that sodium barbital functions as a non complexing inhibitor, and its inhibition effect on CK is a slow reversible inactivation. In this study, a kinetic model of the substrate reaction is presented, and the microscopic rate constants for the reaction of sodium barbital with the free enzyme and the enzyme–substrate complexes are determined. Kinetic analysis reveals that sodium barbital might compete with both creatine and ATP, but mainly with creatine, to inhibit the activity of CK. The results suggest that CK might be a target for sodium barbital in vivo.Key words: creatine kinase; inactivation; kinetics; sodium barbital.

scholarly journals Brain and muscle creatine kinase genes contain common TA-rich recognition protein-binding regulatory elements.

1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 4826-4836 ◽  
Author(s):  
R A Horlick ◽  
G M Hobson ◽  
J H Patterson ◽  
M T Mitchell ◽  
P A Benfield
Keyword(s):  
Creatine Kinase ◽  
Binding Site ◽  
Regulatory Element ◽  
Gene Promoter ◽  
Regulatory Elements ◽  
Muscle Creatine Kinase ◽  
Enhancer Activity ◽  
L6 Myotubes ◽  
Recognition Protein ◽  
Muscle Creatine

We have previously reported that the rat brain creatine kinase (ckb) gene promoter contains an AT-rich sequence that is a binding site for a protein called TARP (TA-rich recognition protein). This AT-rich segment is a positively acting regulatory element for the ckb promoter. A similar AT-rich DNA segment is found at the 3' end of the 5' muscle-specific enhancer of the rat muscle creatine kinase (ckm) gene and has been shown to be necessary for full muscle-specific enhancer activity. In this report, we show that TARP binds not only to the ckb promoter but also to the AT-rich segment at the 3' end of the muscle-specific ckm enhancer. A second, weaker TARP-binding site was identified in the ckm enhancer and lies at the 5' end of the minimal enhancer segment. TARP was found in both muscle cells (C2 and L6 myotubes) and nonmuscle (HeLa) cells and appeared to be indistinguishable from both sources, as judged by gel retardation and footprinting assays. The TARP-binding sites in the ckm enhancer and the ckb promoter were found to be functionally interchangeable. We propose that TARP is active in both muscle and nonmuscle cells and that it is one of many potential activators that may interact with muscle-specific regulators to determine the myogenic phenotype.

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