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. 1988 Oct 15;255(2):523–527.

Kinetic analysis of the cerebral creatine kinase reaction under hypoxic and hypoglycaemic conditions in vitro. A 31P-n.m.r. study.

D W Cox 1, P G Morris 1, H S Bachelard 1
PMCID: PMC1135259  PMID: 3202830

Abstract

1. The tissue concentration of phosphocreatine (PCr) and the pseudo-first-order rate constant of creatine kinase (kf) were monitored in superfused guinea-pig brain slices in vitro by using 31P-n.m.r. techniques. 2. Superfusion of slices in low oxygen partial pressure (pO2 approx. 16 kPa) decreased tissue PCr concentrations by 48% but ATP concentrations were unchanged. Regression analysis revealed a significant negative correlation between the PCr concentration in hypoxic tissue and the increase in the rate constant, kf. Nevertheless the forward flux through the enzyme (Jf = kf.[PCr]) declined under these conditions. 3. Lowering the glucose concentration to 0.2 or 0.1 mM decreased PCr concentrations by 29% and 48% respectively; here ATP concentrations as well as PCr concentrations also decreased. Only in the presence of the lower glucose concentration (0.1 mM) was kf increased. However, unlike the situation in hypoxic tissue, Jf was maintained at control rates. 4. In spectra obtained in the presence of low oxygen or low glucose concentrations, a resonance attributable to tissue inorganic phosphate became dectectable. This observation is discussed in terms of known changes in tissue phosphate concentrations and possible alterations in cytoplasmic pH.

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