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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 98, Issue 4, Pages 1356-1365Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00834.2004
Keywords
caldesmon; calponin; latch; mechanics; myosin
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-52714] Funding Source: Medline
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A thin-filament-regulated latch-bridge model of smooth muscle contraction is proposed to integrate thin-filament-based inhibition of actomyosin ATPase activity with myosin phosphorylation in the regulation of smooth muscle mechanics. The model included two latch-bridge cycles, one of which was identical to the four-state model as proposed by Hai and Murphy ( Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 255: C86 - C94, 1988), whereas the ultraslow cross-bridge cycle has lower cross-bridge cycling rates. The model-fitted phorbol ester induced slow contractions at constant myosin phosphorylation and predicted steeper dependence of force on myosin phosphorylation in phorbol ester-stimulated smooth muscle. By shifting cross bridges between the two latch-bridge cycles, the model predicts that a smooth muscle cell can either maintain force at extremely low-energy cost or change its contractile state rapidly, if necessary. Depending on the fraction of cross bridges engaged in the ultraslow latch-bridge cycle, the model predicted biphasic kinetics of smooth muscle mechanics and variable steady-state dependencies of force and shortening velocity on myosin phosphorylation. These results suggest that thin-filament-based regulatory proteins may function as tuners of actomyosin ATPase activity, thus allowing a smooth muscle cell to have two discrete cross-bridge cycles with different cross-bridge cycling rates.
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