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Correspondence to: Thorsten Hornemann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Cell Biology HPM F44, ETHZ-Hönggerberg, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland. E-mail:horneman{at}cell.biol.ethz.ch.
Creatine kinase (CK) is located in an isoenzyme-specific manner at subcellular sites of energy production and consumption. In muscle cells, the muscle-type CK isoform (MM-CK) specifically interacts with the sarcomeric M-line, while the highly homologous brain-type CK isoform (BB-CK) does not share this property. Sequence comparison revealed two pairs of lysine residues that are highly conserved in M-CK but are not present in B-CK. The role of these lysines in mediating M-line interaction was tested with a set of M-CK and B-CK point mutants and chimeras. We found that all four lysine residues are involved in the isoenzyme-specific M-line interaction, acting pair-wise as strong (K104/K115) and weak interaction sites (K8/K24). An exchange of these lysines in MM-CK led to a loss of M-line binding, whereas the introduction of the very same lysines into BB-CK led to a gain of function by transforming BB-CK into a fully competent M-line–binding protein. The role of the four lysines in MM-CK is discussed within the context of the recently solved x-ray structures of MM-CK and BB-CK.
Key Words: creatine kinase, isoenzyme-specific association, sarcomeric M-line, electrophoretic mobility shift, muscle energetics
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