Snake Muscle Creatine
Kinase cDNA£º Molecular
Cloning, Expression and Comparison with Evolutionarily Related Enzymes
ZHANG Feng-Wen, YANG Liang*, ZHAO Fu-Kun, Xu
Gen-Jun**
( Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Shanghai 200031, China )
Abstract Snake
muscle cDNA library was constructed, and an allelic cDNA coding for M-type
creatine kinase was cloned through screening library with antibody. A complete
open reading frame(1 140 bp) codes for 380 amino acids which shows high
homology with known creatine kinase isoenzyme. After cloning into expression
vector pET11a, the snake muscle creatine kinase(SM-CK) was over-expressed in Escherchia
coli. Kinetical studies showed that purified recombinant SM-CK exhibited
behavior similar to the tissue form. Evolutionary tree of M-type creatine
kinase was then constructed, and it was determined that this allelic cDNA of
snake muscle creatine kinase belonged to M-type situated between in mammals and
birds. These findings, along with the following SM-CK gene regulation studies,
may shed light on the role of creatine kinase in energy generation during
hibernation as well as the molecular basis of myogenesis during ontogeny.
Key words Snake muscle creatine kinase£» gene cloning and expression£» homology£» evolutionary tree
*Graduate student from East
China Normal University
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