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Quantitative studies of enzyme-substrate compartmentation, functional coupling and metabolic channelling in muscle cells

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Some historical aspects of development of the concepts of functional coupling, metabolic channelling, compartmentation and energy transfer networks are reviewed. Different quantitative approaches, including kinetic and mathematical modeling of energy metabolism, intracellular energy transfer and metabolic regulation of energy production and fluxes in the cells in vivo are analyzed. As an example of the system with metabolic channelling, thermodynamic aspects of the functioning the mitochondrial creatine kinase functionally coupled to the oxidative phosphorylation are considered. The internal thermodynamics of the mitochondrial creatine kinase reaction is similar to that for other isoenzymes of creatine kinase, and the oxidative phosphorylation process specifically influences steps of association and dissociation of MgATP with the enzyme due to channelling of ATP from adenine nucleotide translocase. A new paradigm of muscle bioenergetics - the paradigm of energy transfer and feedback signaling networks based on analysis of compartmentation phenomena and structural and functional interactions in the cell is described. Analysis of the results of mathematical modeling of the compartmentalized energy transfer leads to conclusion that both calcium and ADP, which concentration changes synchronously in contraction cycle, may simultaneously activate oxidative phosphorylation in the muscle cells in vivo. The importance of the phosphocreatine circuit among other pathways of intracellular energy transfer network is discussed on the basis of the recent data published in the literature, with some experimental demonstration. The results of studies of perfused rat hearts with completely inhibited creatine kinase show significantly decreased work capacity and respectively, energy fluxes, in these hearts in spite of significant activation of adenylate kinase system (Dzeja et al. this volume). These results, combined with those of mathematical analysis of the energy metabolism of hearts of transgenic mice with switched off creatine kinase isoenzymes confirm the importance of phosphocreatine pathway for energy transfer for cell function and energetics in mature heart and many other types of cells, as one of major parts of intracellular energy transfer network and metabolic regulation.

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    Valdur Saks

  2. Institute of Chemical and Biological Physics, Tallin, Estonia

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  3. INSERM Unite 441 - Atherosclerose: Determinisme Cellulaire et Moleculaire, Conséquences Functionnelles, Bordeaux, France

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  4. Muskel Laboratory, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany

    Frank N. Gellerich

  5. Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire des Systèmes Biologiques, UMR 5536, CNRS/Université Bordeaux II, Bordeaux, France

    Philippe Diolez

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Saks, V., Dos Santos, P., Gellerich, F.N. et al. Quantitative studies of enzyme-substrate compartmentation, functional coupling and metabolic channelling in muscle cells. Mol Cell Biochem 184, 291–307 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006828106322

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