Regulation of tail muscle arginine kinase by reversible phosphorylation in an anoxia-tolerant crayfish

NJ Dawson, KB Storey - Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 2011 - Springer
Freshwater crayfish, Orconectes virilis, can experience periodic exposures to hypoxia or
anoxia due to low water flow (in summer) or ice cover (in winter) in their natural habitat …

The Pam18/Tim14–Pam16/Tim16 complex of the mitochondrial translocation motor: the formation of a stable complex from marginally stable proteins

O Iosefson, R Levy, M Marom… - Protein …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The vast majority of mitochondrial proteins are imported from the cytosol. For matrix‐
localized proteins, the final step of translocation across the inner membrane is mediated by …

Intermediates in the refolding of urea-denatured dimeric arginine kinase from Stichopus japonicus

G Qin, W Xicheng - International journal of biological macromolecules, 2007 - Elsevier
The refolding of urea-denatured dimeric AK was investigated by both equilibrium and kinetic
measurements. Both studies indicated that the refolding of dimeric AK is a multiphasic …

Effects of N-terminal deletion mutation on arginine kinase from the sea cucumber Stichopus japonicus

TT Liu, XC Wang - International journal of biological macromolecules, 2008 - Elsevier
Deletion mutants of arginine kinase (AK) were constructed: AKND4, AKND6, AKND8,
AKND10 (the first 4, 6, 8 and 10 amino acids of the N-terminal were deleted), to investigate …

Impact of intra-subunit interactions on the dimeric arginine kinase activity and structural stability

QY Wu, KZ Jin, F Li, ZQ Hu, XY Wang - International journal of biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Arginine kinase (AK) catalyzes the reversible phosphorylation of arginine by ATP, yielding
the phosphoarginine. In this research, six conserved residues located on the intra-subunit …

The D14 and R138 ion pair is involved in dimeric arginine kinase activity, structural stability and folding

HL Geng, MR Bian, Y Liu, J Cao, C Chen… - International journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Arginine kinase (AK) is a key enzyme in cellular energy metabolism of invertebrates. There
are two conserved amino acid residues D14 and R138 in dimeric AK which form inter …

Impact of inter-subunit interactions on the dimeric arginine kinase activity and structural stability

QY Wu, F Li, XY Wang, ZJ Chen - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2011 - Elsevier
Arginine kinase (AK) is a key enzyme for cellular energy metabolism, catalyzing the
reversible phosphoryl transfer from phosphoarginine to ADP in invertebrates. In this study …

Sea Cucumber as a Source of Bioactive Compounds: Current Research on Isostichopus Badionotus and Isostichopus Fuscus from Mexico

L Olivera‐Castillo, RG Barrientos… - … from Marine Foods …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Found worldwide, sea cucumbers are used both as a food and as a source of bioactive
substances with potential biotechnological uses. As global consumer demand has …

The roles of C-terminal loop residues of dimeric arginine kinase from sea cucumber Stichopus japonicus in catalysis, specificity and structure

J Zhang, T Zhao, S Wang, Q Guo, T Liu, F Zhao… - International journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
Arginine kinase (AK) catalyzes the reversible phosphorylation of arginine by MgATP to form
a high-energy compound phosphoarginine (Parg) and MgADP in forward reaction in …

Two fused proteins combining Stichopus japonicus arginine kinase and rabbit muscle creatine kinase

J Zhang, Q Guo, T Zhao, T Liu, X Wang - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2006 - Springer
Two fused proteins of dimeric arginine kinase (AK) from sea cucumber and dimeric creatine
kinase (CK) from rabbit muscle, named AK-CK and CK-AK, were obtained through the …