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Expression of arginine kinase enzymatic activity and mRNA in gills of the euryhaline crabs Carcinus maenas and Callinectes sapidus
S. Kotlyar, D. Weihrauch, R.S. Paulsen, D.W. Towle
Journal of Experimental Biology 2000 203: 2395-2404;

Summary

Phosphagen kinases catalyze the reversible dephosphorylation of guanidino phosphagens such as phosphocreatine and phosphoarginine, contributing to the restoration of adenosine triphosphate concentrations in cells experiencing high and variable demands on their reserves of high-energy phosphates. The major invertebrate phosphagen kinase, arginine kinase, is expressed in the gills of two species of euryhaline crabs, the blue crab Callinectes sapidus and the shore crab Carcinus maenas, in which energy-requiring functions include monovalent ion transport, acid-base balance, nitrogen excretion and gas exchange. The enzymatic activity of arginine kinase approximately doubles in the ion-transporting gills of C. sapidus, a strong osmoregulator, when the crabs are transferred from high to low salinity, but does not change in C. maenas, a more modest osmoregulator. Amplification and sequencing of arginine kinase cDNA from both species, accomplished by reverse transcription of gill mRNA and the polymerase chain reaction, revealed an open reading frame coding for a 357-amino-acid protein. The predicted amino acid sequences showed a minimum of 75 % identity with arginine kinase sequences of other arthropods. Ten of the 11 amino acid residues believed to participate in arginine binding are completely conserved among the arthropod sequences analyzed. An estimation of arginine kinase mRNA abundance indicated that acclimation salinity has no effect on arginine kinase gene transcription. Thus, the observed enhancement of enzyme activity in C. sapidus probably results from altered translation rates or direct activation of pre-existing enzyme protein.

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Expression of arginine kinase enzymatic activity and mRNA in gills of the euryhaline crabs Carcinus maenas and Callinectes sapidus
S. Kotlyar, D. Weihrauch, R.S. Paulsen, D.W. Towle
Journal of Experimental Biology 2000 203: 2395-2404;
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