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The action of the creatine analogue beta-guanidinopropionic acid (beta-GPA) was examined in rat heart mitochondria and in isolated cardiomyocytes or fibres which were permeabilized with the non-ionic detergent saponin to determine the kinetics of mitochondrial creatine kinase for beta-GPA. Fibres and myocytes were subjected to increasing [ADP] in the presence and absence of beta-GPA or creatine, whereas isolated mitochondria received a similar protocol with increasing [ATP]. In isolated mitochondria given ATP, there was a stimulation of respiration by creatine, but no significant stimulation of respiration by beta-GPA. Further studies on fibres from control and beta-GPA-fed rats also found that beta-GPA is not utilized by the mitochondria, as evidenced by a lack of beta-GPA-stimulated respiration (Km for ADP = 142 +/- 23 microM) compared with control (Km for ADP from 161 +/- 23 microM), but no significant change in Vmax. Therefore the rat heart mitochondria are not responsive to beta-GPA as compared with creatine. Interestingly, the fibres from beta-GPA-fed rats had no creatine- or beta-GPA-stimulated respiration (Km for ADP = 57.3 +/- 7.2 microM for control, 54.2 +/- 7.2 microM with creatine, and 53.5 +/- 7.8 microM with beta-GPA). The mitochondria prepared from the hearts of rats exposed for 10 weeks to 1% beta-GPA in their diet had a significant decrease in Vmax. and a significant decrease in Km for ADP. Thus the hearts from beta-GPA-fed animals may be pathologic, due to a disruption of the creatine kinase energy circuit.
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