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Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4
Two fundamental assumptions underlie currently accepted dogma on creatine phosphokinase (CPK) function in phosphagen-containing cells: 1) CPK always operates near equilibrium and 2) CPK has access to, and reacts with, the entire pool of phosphocreatine (PCr) and creatine (Cr). We tested the latter assumption in fish fast-twitch or white muscle (WM) by introducing [14C]Cr into the WM pool in vivo. To avoid complications arising from working with muscles formed from a mixture of fast and slow fibers, it was advantageous to work with fish WM because it is uniformly fast twitch and is anatomically separated from other fiber types. According to current theory, at steady state after [14C]Cr administration, the specific activities of PCr and Cr should be the same under essentially all conditions. In contrast, we found that, in various metabolic states between rest and recovery from exercise, the specific activity of PCr greatly exceeds that of Cr. The data imply that a significant fraction of Cr is not free to rapidly exchange with exogenously added [14C]Cr. Releasing of this unlabeled or "cold" Cr on acid extraction accounts for lowered specific activities. This unexpected and provocative result is not consistent with traditional models of phosphagen function.
creatine shuttles; muscle phosphagen; fish muscle phosphagen; muscle energetics; creatine compartmentalization
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