Application of in vitro motility assay to studying the calcium-mechanical relationship in skeletal and cardiac muscles |
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Authors: | G V Kopylova L B Katsnelson D A Ovsyannikov S Yu Bershitsky L V Nikitina |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, 620041, Russia |
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Abstract: | In a set of experiments on regulated contractile systems (i.e., in vitro motility assay with a reconstructed thin filament), the velocity of a thin filament on the surface coated with rabbit skeletal or rat cardiac myosin was estimated at various calcium ion concentrations in solution (pCa 4–8). The velocity versus pCa curve proved to be sigmoid. The velocity of a regulated thin filament at a saturating calcium concentration (pCa 4) exceeded that of a nonregulated thin filament by 65 and 87% for skeletal and cardiac myosin, respectively. The Hill coefficient was 1.95 and 2.5 for skeletal and cardiac muscles, respectively; this difference was discussed in terms of the different contributions of cooperativity mechanisms of contractile and regulatory proteins to the regulation of contraction in these types of muscle. |
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Keywords: | muscle contraction Ca2+-regulation regulated thin filament contractile and regulatory proteins cooperativity mechanisms |
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