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. 1978 Nov 15;176(2):419–427. doi: 10.1042/bj1760419

Turnover of muscle protein in the fowl. Collagen content and turnover in cardiac and skeletal muscles of the adult fowl and the changes during stretch-induced growth

Geoffrey J Laurent 1,*, Malcolm P Sparrow 1,*, Peter C Bates 1, David J Millward 1
PMCID: PMC1186249  PMID: 743250

Abstract

The collagen content and the rate of collagen synthesis were measured in the anterior and posterior latissimus dorsi muscles and in heart from fully grown fowl. This was done by measuring the proline/hydroxyproline ratios in the muscle and by a constant infusion of [14C]proline. These measurements were also made during the hypertrophy of the anterior muscle in response to the attachment of a weight to one wing of the fowl. In the non-growing muscles the collagen content was higher in the anterior muscle (22.8% of total protein) than in the posterior muscle (9.5% of total protein) and lowest in the heart (3.8% of total protein). In the two skeletal muscles a little over half of the collagen was accounted for by internal collagen (i.e. perimysium and endomysium). Collagen synthesis in these non-growing muscles occurred at 0.59%/day in each of the two skeletal muscles and at 0.88%/day in the cardiac muscle. During hypertrophy the collagen content of the anterior muscle increased, but not as fast as intracellular protein, so that after 58 days the concentration had fallen from 22.8 to 14.4% of total protein. This may have resulted from an incomplete production of the epimysial sheath, since the concentration of internal collagen did not fall and as a result accounted for over 80% of the total in the enlarged muscle. Collagen synthesis increased 8-fold during the first week of the hypertrophy, but never amounted to more than 4% of the total muscle protein synthesis. When the net accumulation of collagen is compared with the increased rate of synthesis it is concluded that between 30 and 70% of the newly synthesized collagen may have been degraded.

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