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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 106, Issue 2 671-683, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists

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Brain-type creatine kinase in photoreceptor cell outer segments: role of a phosphocreatine circuit in outer segment energy metabolism and phototransduction

W Hemmer, I Riesinger, T Wallimann, HM Eppenberger and AF Quest
Institute for Cell Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Honggerberg, Zurich.

Different isoforms of creatine kinase, an important enzyme of vertebrate energy metabolism, were localized in bovine photoreceptor cells, with particular emphasis on the identification and quantification of the brain-type isoform within the outer segment compartment. Using immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy, brain-type creatine kinase was shown to be present in bovine photoreceptor cell outer and inner segments. The presence of this isoenzyme in rod outer segments was additionally confirmed by immunoblotting and immunolabeling of isolated rod outer segments. The content of creatine kinase in rod outer segments was quantified by measuring creatine kinase activity after membrane disruption with detergent. The ATP regeneration potential provided by the creatine kinase in isolated, washed bovine rod outer segments was 1.2 +/- (0.4) i.u. mg-1 rhodopsin. This value was calculated to be at least an order of magnitude larger than that necessary to replenish the energy required for cGMP resynthesis in rod outer segments, and high enough to regenerate the entire ATP pool of rod outer segments within the time span of a photic cycle. A mitochondrial creatine kinase isoenzyme was located within the ellipsoid portions of bovine rod and cone inner segments by immunofluorescence microscopy and, using immunogold staining, was specifically localized in the mitochondria clustered within bovine rod and cone inner segments. These results suggest that vertebrate photoreceptor cells contain a functional phosphocreatine circuit. Outer segment creatine kinase may play an important role in phototransduction by providing energy for the visual cycle, maintaining high local ATP/ADP ratios and consuming protons produced by enzymes located in the outer segment.


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