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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 28, 41-44, Copyright © 1982 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Stability of creatine kinase-3 in lyophilized materials

VS Whitner, LG Morin, SS McKneally and EJ Sampson

We examined the stability of creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2) isoenzyme-3 (CK-3) in lyophilized bovine albumin matrices in the presence and absence of various sulfhydryl compounds and ADP. We initially purified CK-3 from human myocardium and skeletal muscle by the batch- chromatographic technique and by gradient elution column chromatography to specific activities of 293 and 93 kU/g, respectively. To assess stability, we subjected the lyophilized materials to storage studies at 4, 25, 37, 42, 56, and 65 degrees C and compared first-order rate constants for the decay of creatine kinase activity at 42 degrees C. Our most stable matrix contained, per liter, 2 mmol of ADP and 10 mmol of N-acetylcysteine, and had an extrapolated first-order half-life (Arrhenius plot) at -20 degrees C of approximately 60000 years.




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