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. 1989 Jan 15;257(2):519–527. doi: 10.1042/bj2570519

The effects of fasting or hypoxia on rates of protein synthesis in vivo in subcellular fractions of rat heart and gastrocnemius muscle.

V R Preedy 1, P H Sugden 1
PMCID: PMC1135609  PMID: 2930464

Abstract

We measured rates of protein synthesis in vivo in subcellular fractions (soluble, myofibrillar and stromal fractions) of the heart and the gastrocnemius from rats after fasting or under hypoxic conditions (i.e. atmospheres containing 5% or 10% O2). Such interventions are known to inhibit protein synthesis under some circumstances. The recovery of tissue protein after fractionation was 80-100%. The proportions of protein present in the soluble and stromal fractions were different in the two muscles. The rates of protein synthesis in the myofibrillar and stromal fractions were less than those for total mixed tissue protein, whereas the rate for soluble protein was greater. Both fasting and moderate hypoxia (10% O2 for 24 h) inhibited protein synthesis in the gastrocnemius. In this tissue, the synthesis of the myofibrillar fraction was apparently the most sensitive to inhibition, and this resulted in some significant increases in the soluble-fraction/myofibrillar-fraction protein-synthesis rate ratios. In the heart, fasting inhibited protein synthesis, but moderate hypoxia (10% O2 for 24 h) did not. The rate of protein synthesis in the cardiac myofibrillar fraction was again more sensitive to fasting than were the rates in the other fractions, but it was not as sensitive as that in the gastrocnemius. Under severely hypoxic conditions (5% O2 for 1 or 2 h), protein synthesis was decreased in all fractions in both tissues. These results suggest that the rates of protein synthesis in these relatively crude subcellular fractions vary.

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