Phosphorylation in vivo of red‐muscle pyruvate kinase from the channelled whelk, Busycotypus canaliculatum, in response to anoxic stress
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- 1 September 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 143 (2), 267-272
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1984.tb08368.x
Abstract
That red muscle pyruvate kinase from anoxic Busycotypus canaliculatum (PK-anoxic) is a phosphoprotein was demonstrated by the anoxia-dependent, in vivo, covalent incorporation of injected [32P]orthophosphate into the enzyme molecule. Specificity in labelling of PK-anoxic was strongly suggested by: (a) coincidental elution of pyruvate kinase activity and radioactivity following chromatography of purified PK-anoxic on Sepha-rose CL-6B, and (b) comigration of the area containing [32P]phosphate and Coomassie-Blue-staining protein following SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of homogenous PK-anoxic. The [32P]phosphate content of the enzyme was calculated to be 7.3 mol phosphate/mol enzyme (233 kDa, 180 units/mg protein). Evidence for the reversibility of this phosphorylation was provided by the consistent kinetic similarities between purified red muscle pyruvate kinase from aerobic animals (PK-aerobic) and homogenous, unlabelled, alkaline phosphatase treated PK-anoxic. Comparison of the electrophoretic mobilities of products derived from acid hydrolysis of purified 32P-labelled PK-anoxic with authentic substances suggest the presence of an O-phospho-L-threonine residue in the protein. That this residue plays a probable role in an interconversion mechanism was suggested by the lack of phosphate exchange of homogenous 32P-labelled PK-anoxic in the presence of all substrates. A possible role of protein phosphorylation as a mechanism for the overall control of molluscan anaerobic metabolism is suggested.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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