title: Native mitochondrial creatine kinase forms octameric structures. I. Isolation of two interconvertible mitochondrial creatine kinase forms, dimeric and octameric mitochondrial creatine kinase: characterization, localization, and structure-function relationships.
abstract: The mitochondrial isoform of creatine kinase (Mi-CK, EC 2.7.3.2) purified to homogeneity from chicken cardiac muscle by the mild and efficient technique described in this article was greater than or equal to 99.5% pure and consisted of greater than or equal to 95% of a distinct, octameric Mi-CK protein species, with a Mr of 364,000 +/- 30,000 and an apparent subunit Mr of 42,000. The remaining 5% were dimeric Mi-CK with an apparent Mr of 86,000 +/- 8,000. Octamerization was not due to covalent linkages or intermolecular disulfide bonding. Upon dilution into buffers of low ionic strength and alkaline pH, octameric Mi-CK slowly dissociated in a time-dependent manner (weeks-months) into dimeric Mi-CK. However, the time scale of dimerization was reduced to minutes by the addition to diluted Mi-CK octamers of a mixture of Mg2+, ADP, creatine and nitrate known to induce a transition-state analogue complex (Milner-White, E.J., and Watts, D. C. (1971) Biochem. J. 122, 727-740). The conversion was fully reversible, and octamers were reformed by simple concentrations of Mi-CK dimer solutions to greater than or equal to 1 mg/ml at near neutral pH and physiological salt concentrations in the absence of adenine nucleotide. After separation of the two Mi-CK species by gel filtration, electron microscopic analysis revealed uniform square-shaped particles with a central negative-stain-filled cavity in the octamer fractions and "banana-shaped" structures in the dimer fractions. Mi-CK was localized inside the mitochondria by immunogold labeling with polyclonal antibodies. A dynamic model of the octamer-dimer equilibrium of Mi-CK and the preferential association of the octameric Mi-CK form with the inner mitochondrial membrane is discussed in the context of regulation of Mi-CK activity, mitochondrial respiration, and the CP shuttle.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Cell Biology, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schlegel
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zurbriggen
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wegmann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wyss
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Eppenberger
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wallimann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007527:Isoenzymes; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008929:Mitochondria, Heart / Q000201:enzymology*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D003402:Creatine Kinase