Concentrations of signal transduction proteins mediating exercise and insulin responses in rat extensor digitorum longus and soleus muscles |
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Authors: | Atherton Philip J. Higginson James M. Singh Jaipaul Wackerhage Henning |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, England, UK;(2) School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK |
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Abstract: | Differences in the concentrations of signal transduction proteins often alter cellular function and phenotype, as is evident from numerous, heterozygous knockout mouse models for signal transduction proteins. Here, we measured signal transduction proteins involved in the adaptation to exercise and insulin signalling in fast rat extensor digitorum longus (EDL; 3% type I fibres) and the slow soleus muscles (84% type I fibres). The EDL and soleus were excised from four rats, the proteins extracted and subjected to Western blots for various signal transduction proteins. Our results show major differences in signal transduction protein concentrations between EDL and soleus. The EDL to soleus concentration ratios were: Calcineurin: 1.43 ± 0.10; ERK1: 0.38 ± 0.18; ERK2: 0.61 ± 0.16; p38, : 1.36 ± 0.15; p38/ERK6: 0.95 ± 0.11; PKB/AKT: 1.44 ± 0.08; p70S6k: 6.86 ± 3.58; GSK3: 0.69 ± 0.03; myostatin: 1.95 ± 0.43; NF-B: 0.32 ± 0.10 (values >1 indicate higher expression in the EDL, and values <1 indicate higher expression in the soleus). With the exception of p38/ERK6, the concentration of each signal transduction protein was uniformly higher in one muscle than in the other in all four animals. These experiments show that signal transduction protein concentrations vary between fast and slow muscles, presumably reflecting a concentration difference on a fibre level. Proteins that promote particular functions such as growth or slow phenotype are not necessarily higher in muscles with that particular trait (e.g. higher in larger fibres or slow muscle). Interindividual differences in fibre composition might explain variable responses to training and insulin. (Mol Cell Biochem 261: 111–116, 2004) |
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Keywords: | calcineurin ERK1/2 exercise GSK3 /content/v8783h5125803711/xxlarge946.gif" alt=" beta" align=" MIDDLE" BORDER=" 0" > myostatin NF- /content/v8783h5125803711/xxlarge954.gif" alt=" kappa" align=" BASELINE" BORDER=" 0" >B p38 p70S6k PKB/AKT skeletal muscle |
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