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Evolution of phosphagen kinase. Isolation, characterization and cDNA-derived amino acid sequence of two-domain arginine kinase from the sea anemone Anthopleura japonicus.

ABSTRACT: Arginine kinase (AK) was isolated from the body wall muscle of the primitive sea anemone Anthopleura japonicus by Ultrogel AcA34 gel filtration, DEAE-32 chromatography and elution on a Cosmogel-SP column. The denatured molecular mass as determined with SDS/PAGE was 80 kDa, twice that of the usual AK subunit, indicating that this AK has an unusual two-domain structure. The native form was eluted on a Superose 12 column with the same retention time as that of rabbit homodimeric creatine kinase, indicating that Anthopleura AK is a monomer of 80 kDa. The isolated enzyme gave a specific activity of 100-120 micromol of Pi/min per mg of protein in the pH range 7.9-9.1 for the forward reaction. The enzyme is fully activated by Ca2+, as it is with Mg2+. The cDNA-derived amino acid sequence of 715 residues of Anthopleura AK was determined. The validity of the sequence was supported by chemical sequencing of internal tryptic peptides. A bridge intron of 686 bp, which separates the two domains of Anthopleura AK, is present between the second and third nucleotide in the codon of Ala-364. This is the first two-domain AK to be sequenced. Anthopleura AK shows 48-54% amino acid sequence identity with known invertebrate AKs, and also shows a lower, but significant, similarity (39-46%) to marine worm glycocyamine kinase and rabbit creatine kinase.

SUBMITTER: Suzuki T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1218921 | biostudies-other | 1997 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Project description:Arginine kinase from the sea cucumber Stichopus japonicus underwent a unique molecular evolution. Unlike the monomeric 40 kDa arginine kinases from molluscs and arthropods, Stichopus arginine kinase is dimeric, the same as cytoplasmic isoenzymes of the vertebrate creatine kinases. Its entire amino acid sequence is more similar to creatine kinases than to other arginine kinases, but the guanidino specificity region (GS region) is of the arginine kinase type. To elucidate its unusual evolution, the structure of the Stichopus arginine kinase gene was determined. It consisted of seven exons and six introns, and a part of the exon 2 of the Stichopus gene corresponds to the GS region. Compared with the structure of the human muscle creatine kinase gene (seven exons, six introns), the splice junctions of five introns were conserved exactly between the two genes, suggesting that these introns had been conserved for at least 500 million years. The entire sequence of Stichopus arginine kinase is distinctly included in the creatine kinase cluster in all tree construction methods examined. On the other hand, if the tree is constructed only from sequences corresponding to Stichopus exon 2, it is placed in the arginine kinase cluster. Thus we conclude that Stichopus arginine kinase evolved not from the arginine kinase gene but from the creatine kinase gene, and suggest that its GS region, determining substrate specificity, has been replaced by an arginine kinase type via exon shuffling. In typical arginine kinases four residues, Ser(63), Gly(64), Val(65) and Tyr(68) (numbering from the Limulus polyphemus sequence), in the GS region are highly conserved and are associated with substrate binding. Among them, Tyr(68) appears to play a crucial role by forming a hydrogen bond with the substrate, and is conserved exactly in all arginine kinases. However, in Stichopus arginine kinase, none of these four conserved residues were present. Nevertheless, the enzyme displays an affinity for the substrate arginine (K(m)=0.8 mM) comparable with other arginine kinases. This implies that a completely different substrate-binding system has been developed in Stichopus arginine kinase. We propose that the His(64) in Stichopus arginine kinase acts as a substitute for the Tyr(68) in other arginine kinases, and that the imidazole ring of His(64) is hydrogen bonded with the substrate arginine, thus stabilizing it.

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Evolution of phosphagen kinase. Isolation, characterization and cDNA-derived amino acid sequence of two-domain arginine kinase from the sea anemone Anthopleura japonicus.

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