期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
卷 287, 期 6, 页码 H2712-H2718出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01067.2003
关键词
kinetics of force development; skinned myocardium
资金
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-47053] Funding Source: Medline
It is generally recognized that ventricular myosin regulatory light chains (RLC) are similar to40% phosphorylated under basal conditions, and there is little change in RLC phosphorylation with agonist stimulation of myocardium or altered stimulation frequency. To establish the functional consequences of basal RLC phosphorylation in the heart, we measured mechanical properties of rat skinned trabeculae in which similar to7% or similar to58% of total RLC was phosphorylated. The protocol for achieving similar to7% phosphorylation of RLC involved isolating trabeculae in the presence of 2,3-butanedione monoxime (BDM) to dephosphorylate RLC from its baseline level. Subsequent phosphorylation to similar to58% of total was achieved by incubating BDM-treated trabeculae in solution containing smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase, calmodulin, and Ca2+ (i.e., MLCK treatment). After MLCK treatment, Ca2+ sensitivity of force increased by 0.06 pCa units and maximum force increased by 5%. The rate constant of force development (k(tr)) increased as a function of Ca2+ concentration in the range between pCa 5.8 and pCa 4.5. When expressed versus pCa, the activation dependence of k(tr) appeared to be unaffected by MLCK treatment; however, when activation was expressed in terms of isometric force-generating capability (as a fraction of maximum), MLCK treatment slowed k(tr) at submaximal activations. These results suggest that basal phosphorylation of RLC plays a role in setting the kinetics of force development and Ca2+ sensitivity of force in cardiac muscle. Our results also argue that changes in RLC phosphorylation in the range examined here influence actin-myosin interaction kinetics differently in heart muscle than was previously reported for skeletal muscle.
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