Demonstration of the presence of M-creatine kinase in mammalian myogenic cell lines

Abstract

Unequivocal identification of M-CK in cell extracts from fused cells of myogenic cell lines is difficult due to almost identical behaviour of the M-CK and a contaminating enzyme activity in electrophoresis. If CK dimers present in cell extracts were subjected to dissociation and reassociation in the presence of exogenous B-CK subunits, the formation of easily identifiable MB-CK was demonstrated, indicating the presence of M-CK in the myogenic rat cell lines.