CREATINE AND CREATINE PHOSPHATE IN NORMAL AND PROTEIN-DEPLETED RATS

748 Creatine Kinase and Creatine Phosphate in Macrophages

Creatine phosphate serves as a reuseable high energy phosphate reservoir in skeletal and cardiac muscle and in the brain. These stores of creatine phosphate are thought to rephosphorylate the ATP hydrolyzed during cellular work (see 1 and 2 for review). Studies in our laboratory (3) have shown that mononuclear phagocytes obtained from the peritoneal cavities of mice also contain large stores of...

Creatine Kinase Activity and Cartilage Energy Metabolism: Creatine Kinase-creatine Phosphate Circuit Activity and Macromolecule Synthesis

Earlier studies showed that there is significant creatine kinase activity in the epiphyseal growth cartilage, and there is stage-specific isoform expression. To further explore the role of this enzyme in cartilage development, we disrupted the creatine kinase creatine phosphate (CK-CP) circuit using the creatine analogue, cyclocreatine. We found that while cyclocreatine decreased creatine kinas...

Creatine-creatine phosphate shuttle modeled as two-compartment system at different levels of creatine kinase activity.

In order to characterize ADP-ATP and creatine-creatine phosphate (Cr-CrP) shuttles a minimal mathematical model with two compartments and cyclic turnover of matter was designed. The 'mitochondrial' compartment contained 'ATP-synthase' and 'mitochondrial creatine kinase' (mitCK). The 'cytoplasmic' compartment consisted of 'ATPase', 'cytoplasmic creatine kinase' (cytCK) and an 'ADP-binding struct...

High Energy Phosphate Compounds in the Myocardium during Experimental Congestive Heart Failure. Purine and Pyrimidine Nucleotides, Creatine, and Creatine Phosphate in Normal and in failing Hearts.

Creatine and creatine kinase measurement.

*Many methods for measuring creatine are known, the principal ones being direct calorimetric assay (l), indirect calorimetric assay (2), and destruction with bacterial adaptive enzymes (3). However, none of these methods are specific nor are they sensitive enough to detect very small amounts of creatine. rIhese assays have been used to examine urine and serum for creatine content, but, because ...