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Creatine kinase catalyses the conversion of ADP and phosphoryl creatine into ATP and creatine. In skeletal muscle a non-mitochondrial isoenzyme of creatine kinase has a major role in regulating the energy supply for muscle contraction by maintaining the ATP pools at relatively constant levels1,2. Recently, this enzyme has been localized by immunofluorescence techniques on intermediate filaments and stress fibres in interphase cells3 and in mitotic spindles of dividing tissue culture cell lines, including the PtK1 cell line4,5 and has been found to co-purify with spindles isolated from dividing sea urchin eggs6 and with muscle cell nuclei7. Here I have used permeabilized PtK1 cells to investigate the possibility that creatine kinase may be involved in regulation of spindle energy metabolism by lysing cells in medium containing phosphoryl creatine. I find that spindle elongation will continue in these conditions, provided ADP is also present in the lysis medium. This finding is consistent with my previous demonstration that spindle elongation is the ATP-requiring step during anaphase8,9 and is a direct demonstration that creatine kinase may have a role in mitosis analogous to that observed during skeletal muscle contraction.
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Cande, W. Creatine kinase role in anaphase chromosome movement. Nature 304, 557–558 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/304557a0
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