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. 1997 Apr;72(4):1780–1791. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78824-6

Strain-dependent modulation of phosphate transients in rabbit skeletal muscle fibers.

E Homsher 1, J Lacktis 1, M Regnier 1
PMCID: PMC1184372  PMID: 9083682

Abstract

When inorganic phosphate (Pi) is photogenerated from caged Pi during isometric contractions of glycerinated rabbit psoas muscle fibers, the released Pi binds to cross-bridges and reverses the working stroke of cross-bridges. The consequent force decline, the Pi-transient, is exponential and probes the kinetics of the power-stroke and Pi release. During muscle shortening, the fraction of attached cross-bridges and the average strain on them decreases (Ford, L. E., A.F. Huxley, and R.M. Simmons, 1977. Tension responses to sudden length change in stimulated frog muscle fibers near slack length. J. Physiol. (Lond.). 269:441-515; Ford, L. E., A. F. Huxley, and R.M. Simmons, 1985. Tension transients during steady state shortening of frog muscle fibers. J. Physiol. (Lond.). 361:131-150. To learn to what extent the Pi transient is strain dependent, muscle fibers were activated and shortened or lengthened at a fixed velocity during the photogeneration of Pi. The Pi transients observed during changes in muscle length showed three primary characteristics: 1) during shortening the Pi transient rate, Kpi, increased and its amplitude decreased with shortening velocity; Kpi increased linearly with velocity to > 110 s-1 at 0.3 muscle lengths per second (ML/s). 2) At a specific shortening velocity, increases in [Pi] produce increases in Kpi that are nonlinear with [Pi] and approach an asymptote. 3) During forced lengthening Kpi and the amplitude of the Pi transient are little different from the isometric contractions. These data can be approximated by a strain-dependent three-state cross-bridge model. The results show that the power stroke's rate is strain-dependent, and are consistent with biochemical studies indicating that the rate-limiting step at low strains is a transition from a weakly to a strongly bound cross-bridge state.

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