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Kawai M, Iorga B. Oscillatory work and the step that generates force in single myofibrils from rabbit psoas. Pflugers Arch 2024; 476:949-962. [PMID: 38558187 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-024-02935-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
Abstract
The elementary molecular step that generates force by cross-bridges (CBs) in active muscles has been under intense investigation in the field of muscle biophysics. It is known that an increase in the phosphate (Pi) concentration diminishes isometric force in active fibers, indicating a tight coupling between the force generation step and the Pi release step. The question asked here is whether the force generation occurs before Pi release or after release. We investigated the effect of Pi on oscillatory work production in single myofibrils and found that Pi-attached state(s) to CBs is essential for its production. Oscillatory work is the mechanism that allows an insect to fly by beating its wings, and it also has been observed in skeletal and cardiac muscle fibers, implying that it is an essential feature of all striated muscle types. With our studies, oscillatory work disappears in the absence of Pi in experiments using myofibrils. This suggests that force is generated during a transition between steps of oscillatory work production, and that the states involved in force production must have Pi attached. With sinusoidal analysis, we obtained the kinetic constants around the Pi release steps, established a CB scheme, and evaluated force generated (and supported) by each CB state. Our results demonstrate that force is generated before Pi is released, and the same force is maintained after Pi is released. Stretch activation and/or delayed tension can also be explained with this CB scheme and forms the basis of force generation and oscillatory work production.
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- Masataka Kawai
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry and Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
- Department of Molecular and Cell Physiology, Hannover Medical School, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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Buvoli M, Wilson GC, Buvoli A, Gugel JF, Hau A, Bönnemann CG, Paradas C, Ryba DM, Woulfe KC, Walker LA, Buvoli T, Ochala J, Leinwand LA. A Laing distal myopathy-associated proline substitution in the β-myosin rod perturbs myosin cross-bridging activity. J Clin Invest 2024; 134:e172599. [PMID: 38690726 PMCID: PMC11060730 DOI: 10.1172/jci172599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024] Open
Abstract
Proline substitutions within the coiled-coil rod region of the β-myosin gene (MYH7) are the predominant mutations causing Laing distal myopathy (MPD1), an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by progressive weakness of distal/proximal muscles. We report that the MDP1 mutation R1500P, studied in what we believe to be the first mouse model for the disease, adversely affected myosin motor activity despite being in the structural rod domain that directs thick filament assembly. Contractility experiments carried out on isolated mutant muscles, myofibrils, and myofibers identified muscle fatigue and weakness phenotypes, an increased rate of actin-myosin detachment, and a conformational shift of the myosin heads toward the more reactive disordered relaxed (DRX) state, causing hypercontractility and greater ATP consumption. Similarly, molecular analysis of muscle biopsies from patients with MPD1 revealed a significant increase in sarcomeric DRX content, as observed in a subset of myosin motor domain mutations causing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Finally, oral administration of MYK-581, a small molecule that decreases the population of heads in the DRX configuration, significantly improved the limited running capacity of the R1500P-transgenic mice and corrected the increased DRX state of the myofibrils from patients. These studies provide evidence of the molecular pathogenesis of proline rod mutations and lay the groundwork for the therapeutic advancement of myosin modulators.
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- Massimo Buvoli
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and
- BioFrontiers Institute, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and
- BioFrontiers Institute, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and
- BioFrontiers Institute, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and
- BioFrontiers Institute, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Centre of Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, and
- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, Guy’s Campus, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Neuromuscular Unit, Department of Neurology, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBIS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- Centre of Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, and
- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, Guy’s Campus, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and
- BioFrontiers Institute, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Xi J, Feng HZ, Jin JP, Yuan J, Kawai M. Biomechanical evaluation of flash-frozen and cryo-sectioned papillary muscle samples by using sinusoidal analysis: cross-bridge kinetics and the effect of partial Ca 2+ activation. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2024:10.1007/s10974-024-09667-7. [PMID: 38625452 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-024-09667-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024]
Abstract
We examined the integrity of flash-frozen and cryo-sectioned cardiac muscle preparations (introduced by Feng and Jin, 2020) by assessing tension transients in response to sinusoidal length changes at varying frequencies (1-100 Hz) at 25 °C. Using 70-μm-thick sections, we isolated fiber preparations to study cross-bridge (CB) kinetics: preparations were activated by saturating Ca2+ as well as varying concentrations of ATP and phosphate (Pi). Our results showed that, compared to ordinary skinned fibers, in-series stiffness decreased to 1/2, which resulted in a decrease of isometric tension to 62%, but CB kinetics and Ca2+ sensitivity were little affected. The pCa study demonstrated that the rate constant of the force generation step (2πb) is proportionate to [Ca2+] at < 5 μM, suggesting that the activation mechanism can be described by a simple second order reaction. We also found that tension, stiffness, and magnitude parameters are related to [Ca2+] by the Hill equation, with a cooperativity coefficient of 4-5, which is consistent with the fact that Ca2+ activation mechanisms involve cooperative multimolecular interactions. Our results support the long-held hypothesis that Process C (Phase 2) represents the CB detachment step, and Process B (Phase 3) represents the force generation step. Moreover, we discovered that constant H may represent the work-performing step in cardiac preparations. Our experiments demonstrate excellent CB kinetics with two well-defined exponentials that can be more distinguished than those found using ordinary skinned fibers. Flash-frozen and cryo-sectioned preparations are especially suitable for multi-institutional collaborations nationally and internationally because of their ease of transportation.
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- Jing Xi
- School of Nursing, and Medical Skill Experiment Teaching Center, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 835 S Wolcott Ave, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 835 S Wolcott Ave, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
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- The Collaborative Innovation Center, Jining Medical University, Jining, 272067, China
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
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Barefield DY, Tonino P, Woulfe KC, Rahmanseresht S, O’Leary TS, Burnham HV, Wasserstrom JA, Kirk JA, Previs MJ, Granzier HL, McNally EM. Myosin-binding protein H-like regulates myosin-binding protein distribution and function in atrial cardiomyocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2314920120. [PMID: 38091294 PMCID: PMC10741380 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2314920120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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Mutations in atrial-enriched genes can cause a primary atrial myopathy that can contribute to overall cardiovascular dysfunction. MYBPHL encodes myosin-binding protein H-like (MyBP-HL), an atrial sarcomere protein that shares domain homology with the carboxy-terminus of cardiac myosin-binding protein-C (cMyBP-C). The function of MyBP-HL and the relationship between MyBP-HL and cMyBP-C is unknown. To decipher the roles of MyBP-HL, we used structured illumination microscopy, immuno-electron microscopy, and mass spectrometry to establish the localization and stoichiometry of MyBP-HL. We found levels of cMyBP-C, a major regulator of myosin function, were half as abundant compared to levels in the ventricle. In genetic mouse models, loss of MyBP-HL doubled cMyBP-C abundance in the atria, and loss of cMyBP-C doubled MyBP-HL abundance in the atria. Structured illumination microscopy showed that both proteins colocalize in the C-zone of the A-band, with MyBP-HL enriched closer to the M-line. Immuno-electron microscopy of mouse atria showed MyBP-HL strongly localized 161 nm from the M-line, consistent with localization to the third 43 nm repeat of myosin heads. Both cMyBP-C and MyBP-HL had less-defined sarcomere localization in the atria compared to ventricle, yet areas with the expected 43 nm repeat distance were observed for both proteins. Isometric force measurements taken from control and Mybphl null single atrial myofibrils revealed that loss of Mybphl accelerated the linear phase of relaxation. These findings support a mechanism where MyBP-HL regulates cMyBP-C abundance to alter the kinetics of sarcomere relaxation in atrial sarcomeres.
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- David Y. Barefield
- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL60611
- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL60153
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ85724
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO80045
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT01655
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT01655
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL60153
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- Department of Medicine and The Feinberg Cardiovascular and Renal Institute, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL60611
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL60153
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT01655
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ85724
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL60611
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Xi J, Feng HZ, Jin JP, Yuan J, Kawai M. Mechanical Evaluation of Frozen and Cryo-Sectioned Papillary Muscle Samples by Using Sinusoidal Analysis: Cross-bridge Kinetics and the Effect of Partial Ca 2+ activation. RESEARCH SQUARE 2023:rs.3.rs-3516486. [PMID: 37961283 PMCID: PMC10635403 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3516486/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
Abstract
The use of frozen and cryo-sectioned cardiac muscle preparations, introduced recently by (Feng & Jin, 2020), offers promising advantages of easy transport and exchange of muscle samples among collaborating laboratories. In this report, we examined integrity of such preparation by studying tension transients in response to sinusoidal length changes and following concomitant amplitude and phase shift in tension time courses at varying frequencies. We used sections with 70 μm thickness, isolated fiber preparations, and studied cross-bridge (CB) kinetics: we activated the preparations with saturating Ca2+, and varying concentrations of ATP and phosphate (Pi). Our experiments have demonstrated that this preparation has the normal active tension and elementary steps of the CB cycle. Furthermore, we investigated the effect of Ca2+ on the rate constants and found that the rate constant r 4 of the force generation step is proportionate to [Ca2+] when it is <5 μM. This observation suggests that the activation mechanism can be described by a simple second order reaction. As expected, we found that magnitude parameters including tension and stiffness are related to [Ca2+] by the Hill equation with cooperativity of 4-5, consistent to the fact that Ca2+ activation mechanisms involve cooperative multimolecular interactions. Our results are consistent with a long-held hypothesis that process C (phase 2 of step analysis) represents the CB detachment step, and process B (phase 3) represents the force generation step. In this report, we further found that constant H may also represent work performance step. Our experiments have demonstrated excellent CB kinetics with reduced noise and well-defined two exponentials, which are better than skinned fibers, and easier to handle and study than single myofibrils.
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- Jing Xi
- School of Nursing, and Medical Skill Experiment Teaching Center, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Dept of Physiology and Biophysics, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, 835 S Wolcot Ave, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- Dept of Physiology and Biophysics, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, 835 S Wolcot Ave, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- The Collaborative Innovation Center, Jining Medical University, Jining, 272067, China
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Månsson A, Ušaj M, Moretto L, Matusovsky O, Velayuthan LP, Friedman R, Rassier DE. New paradigms in actomyosin energy transduction: Critical evaluation of non-traditional models for orthophosphate release. Bioessays 2023; 45:e2300040. [PMID: 37366639 DOI: 10.1002/bies.202300040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Revised: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 06/01/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
Abstract
Release of the ATP hydrolysis product ortophosphate (Pi) from the active site of myosin is central in chemo-mechanical energy transduction and closely associated with the main force-generating structural change, the power-stroke. Despite intense investigations, the relative timing between Pi-release and the power-stroke remains poorly understood. This hampers in depth understanding of force production by myosin in health and disease and our understanding of myosin-active drugs. Since the 1990s and up to today, models that incorporate the Pi-release either distinctly before or after the power-stroke, in unbranched kinetic schemes, have dominated the literature. However, in recent years, alternative models have emerged to explain apparently contradictory findings. Here, we first compare and critically analyze three influential alternative models proposed previously. These are either characterized by a branched kinetic scheme or by partial uncoupling of Pi-release and the power-stroke. Finally, we suggest critical tests of the models aiming for a unified picture.
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- Alf Månsson
- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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Jalali F, Nazari MA, Bahrami A, Perrier P, Payan Y. FIM: A fatigued-injured muscle model based on the sliding filament theory. Comput Biol Med 2023; 164:107367. [PMID: 37595519 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 08/12/2023] [Indexed: 08/20/2023]
Abstract
Skeletal muscle modeling has a vital role in movement studies and the development of therapeutic approaches. In the current study, a Huxley-based model for skeletal muscle is proposed, which demonstrates the impact of impairments in muscle characteristics. This model focuses on three identified ions: H+, inorganic phosphate Pi, and Ca2+. Modifications are made to actin-myosin attachment and detachment rates to study the effects of H+ and Pi. Additionally, an activation coefficient is included to represent the role of calcium ions interacting with troponin, highlighting the importance of Ca2+. It is found that maximum isometric muscle force decreases by 9.5% due to a reduction in pH from 7.4 to 6.5 and by 47.5% in case of the combination of a reduction in pH and an increase of Pi concentration up to 30 mM, respectively. Then the force decline caused by a fall in the active calcium ions is studied. When only 15% of the total calcium in the myofibrillar space is able to interact with troponin, up to 80% force drop is anticipated by the model. The proposed fatigued-injured muscle model is useful to study the effect of various shortening velocities and initial muscle-tendon lengths on muscle force; in addition, the benefits of the model go beyond predicting the force in different conditions as it can also predict muscle stiffness and power. The power and stiffness decrease by 40% and 6.5%, respectively, due to the pH reduction, and the simultaneous accumulation of H+ and Pi leads to a 50% and 18% drop in power and stiffness.
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- Fatemeh Jalali
- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran; Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, TIMC, 38000, Grenoble, France.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, GIPSA-lab, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, TIMC, 38000, Grenoble, France
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Wiseman RW, Brown CM, Beck TW, Brault JJ, Reinoso TR, Shi Y, Chase PB. Creatine Kinase Equilibration and ΔG ATP over an Extended Range of Physiological Conditions: Implications for Cellular Energetics, Signaling, and Muscle Performance. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:13244. [PMID: 37686064 PMCID: PMC10487889 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241713244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Revised: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
Abstract
In this report, we establish a straightforward method for estimating the equilibrium constant for the creatine kinase reaction (CK Keq″) over wide but physiologically and experimentally relevant ranges of pH, Mg2+ and temperature. Our empirical formula for CK Keq″ is based on experimental measurements. It can be used to estimate [ADP] when [ADP] is below the resolution of experimental measurements, a typical situation because [ADP] is on the order of micromolar concentrations in living cells and may be much lower in many in vitro experiments. Accurate prediction of [ADP] is essential for in vivo studies of cellular energetics and metabolism and for in vitro studies of ATP-dependent enzyme function under near-physiological conditions. With [ADP], we were able to obtain improved estimates of ΔGATP, necessitating the reinvestigation of previously reported ADP- and ΔGATP-dependent processes. Application to actomyosin force generation in muscle provides support for the hypothesis that, when [Pi] varies and pH is not altered, the maximum Ca2+-activated isometric force depends on ΔGATP in both living and permeabilized muscle preparations. Further analysis of the pH studies introduces a novel hypothesis around the role of submicromolar ADP in force generation.
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- Robert Woodbury Wiseman
- Departments of Physiology and Radiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA;
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA;
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- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
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Marang C, Scott B, Chambers J, Gunther LK, Yengo CM, Debold EP. A mutation in switch I alters the load-dependent kinetics of myosin Va. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3137. [PMID: 37253724 PMCID: PMC10229639 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38535-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Myosin Va is the molecular motor that drives intracellular vesicular transport, powered by the transduction of chemical energy from ATP into mechanical work. The coupling of the powerstroke and phosphate (Pi) release is key to understanding the transduction process, and crucial details of this process remain unclear. Therefore, we determined the effect of elevated Pi on the force-generating capacity of a mini-ensemble of myosin Va S1 (WT) in a laser trap assay. By increasing the stiffness of the laser trap we determined the effect of increasing resistive loads on the rate of Pi-induced detachment from actin, and quantified this effect using the Bell approximation. We observed that WT myosin generated higher forces and larger displacements at the higher laser trap stiffnesses in the presence of 30 mM Pi, but binding event lifetimes decreased dramatically, which is most consistent with the powerstroke preceding the release of Pi from the active site. Repeating these experiments using a construct with a mutation in switch I of the active site (S217A) caused a seven-fold increase in the load-dependence of the Pi-induced detachment rate, suggesting that the S217A region of switch I may help mediate the load-dependence of Pi-rebinding.
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- Christopher Marang
- Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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- Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 17033, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 17033, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.
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The effect of gender and obesity in modulating cross-bridge function in cardiac muscle fibers. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2022; 43:157-172. [PMID: 35994221 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-022-09627-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
The effect of obesity on cross-bridge (CB) function was investigated in mice lacking functional Melanocortin-4 Receptor (MC4R-/-), the loss of which causes dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in humans and mice. Skinned cardiac muscle fibers from male and female mice were used, and activated in the presence of Ca2+. To characterize CB kinetics, we changed the length of fibers in sinewaves (15 frequencies: 1‒187 Hz) at a small amplitude (0.2%L0), studied concomitant tension transients, and deduced the kinetic constants of the CB cycle from the ATP and Pi effects. In males, active tension and stiffness during full activation and rigor were ~ 1.5X in WT compared to MC4R-/- mice. This effect was not observed in females. We also observed that ATP binding and subsequent CB detachment steps were not altered by the mutation/gender. The equilibrium constant of the force generation step (K4) and Pi release step (association constant: K5) were not affected by the mutation, but there was a gender difference in WT mice: K4 and K5 were ~ 2.2X in males than in females. Concomitantly, the forward rate constant (r4) and backward rate constant (r-4) of the force generation step were 1.5-2.5X in muscles from female MC4R-/- mice relative to male MC4R-/- mice. However, these effects did not cause a significant difference in CB distributions among six CB states. In both genders, Ca2+ sensitivity decreased slightly (0.12 pCa unit) in mutants. We conclude that the CB functions are differentially affected both by obesity induced in the absence of functional MC4R-/- and gender.
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Eaton DM, Berretta RM, Lynch JE, Travers JG, Pfeiffer RD, Hulke ML, Zhao H, Hobby ARH, Schena G, Johnson JP, Wallner M, Lau E, Lam MPY, Woulfe KC, Tucker NR, McKinsey TA, Wolfson MR, Houser SR. Sex-specific responses to slow progressive pressure overload in a large animal model of HFpEF. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2022; 323:H797-H817. [PMID: 36053749 PMCID: PMC9550571 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00374.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
Approximately 50% of all heart failure (HF) diagnoses can be classified as HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). HFpEF is more prevalent in females compared with males, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. We previously showed that pressure overload (PO) in male felines induces a cardiopulmonary phenotype with essential features of human HFpEF. The goal of this study was to determine if slow progressive PO induces distinct cardiopulmonary phenotypes in females and males in the absence of other pathological stressors. Female and male felines underwent aortic constriction (banding) or sham surgery after baseline echocardiography, pulmonary function testing, and blood sampling. These assessments were repeated at 2 and 4 mo postsurgery to document the effects of slow progressive pressure overload. At 4 mo, invasive hemodynamic studies were also performed. Left ventricle (LV) tissue was collected for histology, myofibril mechanics, extracellular matrix (ECM) mass spectrometry, and single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNAseq). The induced pressure overload (PO) was not different between sexes. PO also induced comparable changes in LV wall thickness and myocyte cross-sectional area in both sexes. Both sexes had preserved ejection fraction, but males had a slightly more robust phenotype in hemodynamic and pulmonary parameters. There was no difference in LV fibrosis and ECM composition between banded male and female animals. LV snRNAseq revealed changes in gene programs of individual cell types unique to males and females after PO. Based on these results, both sexes develop cardiopulmonary dysfunction but the phenotype is somewhat less advanced in females.NEW & NOTEWORTHY We performed a comprehensive assessment to evaluate the effects of slow progressive pressure overload on cardiopulmonary function in a large animal model of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) in males and females. Functional and structural assessments were performed at the organ, tissue, cellular, protein, and transcriptional levels. This is the first study to compare snRNAseq and ECM mass spectrometry of HFpEF myocardium from males and females. The results broaden our understanding of the pathophysiological response of both sexes to pressure overload. Both sexes developed a robust cardiopulmonary phenotype, but the phenotype was equal or a bit less robust in females.
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- Deborah M Eaton
- Cardiovascular Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Physiology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Pediatrics, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Center for Translational Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- CENTRe: Consortium for Environmental and Neonatal Therapeutics Research, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
- Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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- Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical Education and Data Science, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
- Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
- Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
- Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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- Masonic Medical Research Institute, Utica, New York
- Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
- Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Physiology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Pediatrics, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Center for Translational Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- CENTRe: Consortium for Environmental and Neonatal Therapeutics Research, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Wakefield JI, Bell SP, Palmer BM. Inorganic phosphate accelerates cardiac myofilament relaxation in response to lengthening. Front Physiol 2022; 13:980662. [PMID: 36171969 PMCID: PMC9510985 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.980662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Myocardial relaxation in late systole is enhanced by increasing velocities of lengthening. Given that inorganic phosphate (Pi) can rebind to the force-producing myosin enzyme prior to MgADP release and hasten crossbridge detachment, we hypothesized that myocardial relaxation in late systole would be further enhanced by lengthening in the presence of Pi. Wistar rat left ventricular papillary muscles were attached to platinum clips, placed between a force transducer and a length motor at room temperature, and bathed in Krebs solution with 1.8 mM Ca2+ and varying Pi of 0, 1, 2, and 5 mM. Tension transients were elicited by electrical stimulation at 1 Hz. Peak tension was significantly enhanced by Pi: 0.593 ± 0.088 mN mm−2 at 0 mM Pi and 0.817 ± 0.159 mN mm−2 at 5 mM Pi (mean ± SEM, p < 0.01 by ANCOVA). All temporal characteristics of the force transient were significantly shortened with increasing Pi, e.g., time-to-50% recovery was shortened from 305 ± 14 ms at 0 mM Pi to 256 ± 10 ms at 5 mM Pi (p < 0.01). A 1% lengthening stretch with varying duration of 10–200 ms was applied at time-to-50% recovery during the descending phase of the force transient. Matching lengthening stretches were also applied when the muscle was not stimulated, thus providing a control for the passive viscoelastic response. After subtracting the passive from the active force response, the resulting myofilament response demonstrated features of faster myofilament relaxation in response to the stretch. For example, time-to-70% relaxation with 100 ms lengthening duration was shortened by 8.8 ± 6.8 ms at 0 Pi, 19.6 ± 4.8* ms at 1 mM Pi, 31.0 ± 5.6* ms at 2 Pi, and 25.6 ± 5.3* ms at 5 mM Pi (*p < 0.01 compared to no change). Using skinned myocardium, half maximally calcium-activated myofilaments underwent a 1% quick stretch, and the tension response was subjected to analysis for sensitivity of myosin detachment rate to stretch, g1, at various Pi concentrations. The parameter g1 was enhanced from 15.39 ± 0.35 at 0 Pi to 22.74 ± 1.31 s−1/nm at 8 Pi (p < 0.01). Our findings suggest that increasing Pi at the myofilaments enhances lengthening-induced relaxation by elevating the sensitivity of myosin crossbridge detachment due to lengthening and thus speed the transition from late-systole to early-diastole.
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- Jane I. Wakefield
- Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States
- *Correspondence: Bradley M. Palmer,
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Multistep orthophosphate release tunes actomyosin energy transduction. Nat Commun 2022; 13:4575. [PMID: 35931685 PMCID: PMC9356070 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32110-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Muscle contraction and a range of critical cellular functions rely on force-producing interactions between myosin motors and actin filaments, powered by turnover of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). The relationship between release of the ATP hydrolysis product ortophosphate (Pi) from the myosin active site and the force-generating structural change, the power-stroke, remains enigmatic despite its central role in energy transduction. Here, we present a model with multistep Pi-release that unifies current conflicting views while also revealing additional complexities of potential functional importance. The model is based on our evidence from kinetics, molecular modelling and single molecule fluorescence studies of Pi binding outside the active site. It is also consistent with high-speed atomic force microscopy movies of single myosin II molecules without Pi at the active site, showing consecutive snapshots of pre- and post-power stroke conformations. In addition to revealing critical features of energy transduction by actomyosin, the results suggest enzymatic mechanisms of potentially general relevance. Release of the ATP hydrolysis product orthophosphate (Pi) from the myosin active site is central in force generation but is poorly understood. Here, Moretto et al. present evidence for multistep Pi-release reconciling apparently contradictory results.
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Lewalle A, Campbell KS, Campbell SG, Milburn GN, Niederer SA. Functional and structural differences between skinned and intact muscle preparations. J Gen Physiol 2022; 154:e202112990. [PMID: 35045156 PMCID: PMC8929306 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202112990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Myofilaments and their associated proteins, which together constitute the sarcomeres, provide the molecular-level basis for contractile function in all muscle types. In intact muscle, sarcomere-level contraction is strongly coupled to other cellular subsystems, in particular the sarcolemmal membrane. Skinned muscle preparations (where the sarcolemma has been removed or permeabilized) are an experimental system designed to probe contractile mechanisms independently of the sarcolemma. Over the last few decades, experiments performed using permeabilized preparations have been invaluable for clarifying the understanding of contractile mechanisms in both skeletal and cardiac muscle. Today, the technique is increasingly harnessed for preclinical and/or pharmacological studies that seek to understand how interventions will impact intact muscle contraction. In this context, intrinsic functional and structural differences between skinned and intact muscle pose a major interpretational challenge. This review first surveys measurements that highlight these differences in terms of the sarcomere structure, passive and active tension generation, and calcium dependence. We then highlight the main practical challenges and caveats faced by experimentalists seeking to emulate the physiological conditions of intact muscle. Gaining an awareness of these complexities is essential for putting experiments in due perspective.
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- Alex Lewalle
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Physiology and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
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- Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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- Department of Physiology and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK
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Tanner BCW, Previs MJ, Wang Y, Robbins J, Palmer BM. Cardiac myosin binding protein-C phosphorylation accelerates β-cardiac myosin detachment rate in mouse myocardium. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2021; 320:H1822-H1835. [PMID: 33666504 PMCID: PMC8163640 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00673.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
Cardiac myosin binding protein-C (cMyBP-C) is a thick filament protein that influences sarcomere stiffness and modulates cardiac contraction-relaxation through its phosphorylation. Phosphorylation of cMyBP-C and ablation of cMyBP-C have been shown to increase the rate of MgADP release in the acto-myosin cross-bridge cycle in the intact sarcomere. The influence of cMyBP-C on Pi-dependent myosin kinetics has not yet been examined. We investigated the effect of cMyBP-C, and its phosphorylation, on myosin kinetics in demembranated papillary muscle strips bearing the β-cardiac myosin isoform from nontransgenic and homozygous transgenic mice lacking cMyBP-C. We used quick stretch and stochastic length-perturbation analysis to characterize rates of myosin detachment and force development over 0-12 mM Pi and at maximal (pCa 4.8) and near-half maximal (pCa 5.75) Ca2+ activation. Protein kinase A (PKA) treatment was applied to half the strips to probe the effect of cMyBP-C phosphorylation on Pi sensitivity of myosin kinetics. Increasing Pi increased myosin cross-bridge detachment rate similarly for muscles with and without cMyBP-C, although these rates were higher in muscle without cMyBP-C. Treating myocardial strips with PKA accelerated detachment rate when cMyBP-C was present over all Pi, but not when cMyBP-C was absent. The rate of force development increased with Pi in all muscles. However, Pi sensitivity of the rate force development was reduced when cMyBP-C was present versus absent, suggesting that cMyBP-C inhibits Pi-dependent reversal of the power stroke or stabilizes cross-bridge attachment to enhance the probability of completing the power stroke. These results support a functional role for cMyBP-C in slowing myosin detachment rate, possibly through a direct interaction with myosin or by altering strain-dependent myosin detachment via cMyBP-C-dependent stiffness of the thick filament and myofilament lattice. PKA treatment reduces the role for cMyBP-C to slow myosin detachment and thus effectively accelerates β-myosin detachment in the intact myofilament lattice.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Length perturbation analysis was used to demonstrate that β-cardiac myosin characteristic rates of detachment and recruitment in the intact myofilament lattice are accelerated by Pi, phosphorylation of cMyBP-C, and the absence of cMyBP-C. The results suggest that cMyBP-C normally slows myosin detachment, including Pi-dependent detachment, and that this inhibition is released with phosphorylation or absence of cMyBP-C.
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- Bertrand C W Tanner
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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Scellini B, Piroddi N, Dente M, Vitale G, Pioner JM, Coppini R, Ferrantini C, Poggesi C, Tesi C. Mavacamten has a differential impact on force generation in myofibrils from rabbit psoas and human cardiac muscle. J Gen Physiol 2021; 153:212024. [PMID: 33891673 PMCID: PMC8077167 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202012789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2020] [Revised: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Mavacamten (MYK-461) is a small-molecule allosteric inhibitor of sarcomeric myosins being used in preclinical/clinical trials for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy treatment. A better understanding of its impact on force generation in intact or skinned striated muscle preparations, especially for human cardiac muscle, has been hindered by diffusional barriers. These limitations have been overcome by mechanical experiments using myofibrils subject to perturbations of the contractile environment by sudden solution changes. Here, we characterize the action of mavacamten in human ventricular myofibrils compared with fast skeletal myofibrils from rabbit psoas. Mavacamten had a fast, fully reversible, and dose-dependent negative effect on maximal Ca2+-activated isometric force at 15°C, which can be explained by a sudden decrease in the number of heads functionally available for interaction with actin. It also decreased the kinetics of force development in fast skeletal myofibrils, while it had no effect in human ventricular myofibrils. For both myofibril types, the effects of mavacamten were independent from phosphate in the low-concentration range. Mavacamten did not alter force relaxation of fast skeletal myofibrils, but it significantly accelerated the relaxation of human ventricular myofibrils. Lastly, mavacamten had no effect on resting tension but inhibited the ADP-stimulated force in the absence of Ca2+. Altogether, these effects outline a motor isoform-specific dependence of the inhibitory effect of mavacamten on force generation, which is mediated by a reduction in the availability of strongly actin-binding heads. Mavacamten may thus alter the interplay between thick and thin filament regulation mechanisms of contraction in association with the widely documented drug effect of stabilizing myosin motor heads into autoinhibited states.
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- Beatrice Scellini
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Division of Physiology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Division of Physiology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Division of Physiology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Division of Physiology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Division of Physiology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Sciences, and Child Health, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Division of Physiology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Division of Physiology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Division of Physiology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Kawai M, Stehle R, Pfitzer G, Iorga B. Phosphate has dual roles in cross-bridge kinetics in rabbit psoas single myofibrils. J Gen Physiol 2021; 153:211791. [PMID: 33599680 PMCID: PMC7885270 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202012755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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In this study, we aimed to study the role of inorganic phosphate (Pi) in the production of oscillatory work and cross-bridge (CB) kinetics of striated muscle. We applied small-amplitude sinusoidal length oscillations to rabbit psoas single myofibrils and muscle fibers, and the resulting force responses were analyzed during maximal Ca2+ activation (pCa 4.65) at 15°C. Three exponential processes, A, B, and C, were identified from the tension transients, which were studied as functions of Pi concentration ([Pi]). In myofibrils, we found that process C, corresponding to phase 2 of step analysis during isometric contraction, is almost a perfect single exponential function compared with skinned fibers, which exhibit distributed rate constants, as described previously. The [Pi] dependence of the apparent rate constants 2πb and 2πc, and that of isometric tension, was studied to characterize the force generation and Pi release steps in the CB cycle, as well as the inhibitory effect of Pi. In contrast to skinned fibers, Pi does not accumulate in the core of myofibrils, allowing sinusoidal analysis to be performed nearly at [Pi] = 0. Process B disappeared as [Pi] approached 0 mM in myofibrils, indicating the significance of the role of Pi rebinding to CBs in the production of oscillatory work (process B). Our results also suggest that Pi competitively inhibits ATP binding to CBs, with an inhibitory dissociation constant of ∼2.6 mM. Finally, we found that the sinusoidal waveform of tension is mostly distorted by second harmonics and that this distortion is closely correlated with production of oscillatory work, indicating that the mechanism of generating force is intrinsically nonlinear. A nonlinear force generation mechanism suggests that the length-dependent intrinsic rate constant is asymmetric upon stretch and release and that there may be a ratchet mechanism involved in the CB cycle.
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- Masataka Kawai
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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- Institute of Vegetative Physiology, University of Köln, Köln, Germany
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- Institute of Vegetative Physiology, University of Köln, Köln, Germany.,Institute of Neurophysiology, University of Köln, Köln, Germany
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- Institute of Vegetative Physiology, University of Köln, Köln, Germany.,Department of Molecular and Cell Physiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.,Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
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Offer G, Ranatunga K. The Location and Rate of the Phosphate Release Step in the Muscle Cross-Bridge Cycle. Biophys J 2020; 119:1501-1512. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Revised: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Madan A, Viswanathan MC, Woulfe KC, Schmidt W, Sidor A, Liu T, Nguyen TH, Trinh B, Wilson C, Madathil S, Vogler G, O'Rourke B, Biesiadecki BJ, Tobacman LS, Cammarato A. TNNT2 mutations in the tropomyosin binding region of TNT1 disrupt its role in contractile inhibition and stimulate cardiac dysfunction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:18822-18831. [PMID: 32690703 PMCID: PMC7414051 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001692117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Muscle contraction is regulated by the movement of end-to-end-linked troponin-tropomyosin complexes over the thin filament surface, which uncovers or blocks myosin binding sites along F-actin. The N-terminal half of troponin T (TnT), TNT1, independently promotes tropomyosin-based, steric inhibition of acto-myosin associations, in vitro. Recent structural models additionally suggest TNT1 may restrain the uniform, regulatory translocation of tropomyosin. Therefore, TnT potentially contributes to striated muscle relaxation; however, the in vivo functional relevance and molecular basis of this noncanonical role remain unclear. Impaired relaxation is a hallmark of hypertrophic and restrictive cardiomyopathies (HCM and RCM). Investigating the effects of cardiomyopathy-causing mutations could help clarify TNT1's enigmatic inhibitory property. We tested the hypothesis that coupling of TNT1 with tropomyosin's end-to-end overlap region helps anchor tropomyosin to an inhibitory position on F-actin, where it deters myosin binding at rest, and that, correspondingly, cross-bridge cycling is defectively suppressed under diastolic/low Ca2+ conditions in the presence of HCM/RCM lesions. The impact of TNT1 mutations on Drosophila cardiac performance, rat myofibrillar and cardiomyocyte properties, and human TNT1's propensity to inhibit myosin-driven, F-actin-tropomyosin motility were evaluated. Our data collectively demonstrate that removing conserved, charged residues in TNT1's tropomyosin-binding domain impairs TnT's contribution to inhibitory tropomyosin positioning and relaxation. Thus, TNT1 may modulate acto-myosin activity by optimizing F-actin-tropomyosin interfacial contacts and by binding to actin, which restrict tropomyosin's movement to activating configurations. HCM/RCM mutations, therefore, highlight TNT1's essential role in contractile regulation by diminishing its tropomyosin-anchoring effects, potentially serving as the initial trigger of pathology in our animal models and humans.
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- Aditi Madan
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205
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- Development, Aging and Regeneration Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612
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- Development, Aging and Regeneration Program, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
- The Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205;
- Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205
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Lin YH, Schmidt W, Fritz KS, Jeong MY, Cammarato A, Foster DB, Biesiadecki BJ, McKinsey TA, Woulfe KC. Site-specific acetyl-mimetic modification of cardiac troponin I modulates myofilament relaxation and calcium sensitivity. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2020; 139:135-147. [PMID: 31981571 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2020.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Revised: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is an essential physiological and pathological regulator of cardiac relaxation. Significant to this regulation, the post-translational modification of cTnI through phosphorylation functions as a key mechanism to accelerate myofibril relaxation. Similar to phosphorylation, post-translational modification by acetylation alters amino acid charge and protein function. Recent studies have demonstrated that the acetylation of cardiac myofibril proteins accelerates relaxation and that cTnI is acetylated in the heart. These findings highlight the potential significance of myofilament acetylation; however, it is not known if site-specific acetylation of cTnI can lead to changes in myofilament, myofibril, and/or cellular mechanics. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of mimicking acetylation at a single site of cTnI (lysine-132; K132) on myofilament, myofibril, and cellular mechanics and elucidate its influence on molecular function. METHODS To determine if pseudo-acetylation of cTnI at 132 modulates thin filament regulation of the acto-myosin interaction, we reconstituted thin filaments containing WT or K132Q (to mimic acetylation) cTnI and assessed in vitro motility. To test if mimicking acetylation at K132 alters cellular relaxation, adult rat ventricular cardiomyocytes were infected with adenoviral constructs expressing either cTnI K132Q or K132 replaced with arginine (K132R; to prevent acetylation) and cell shortening and isolated myofibril mechanics were measured. Finally, to confirm that changes in cell shortening and myofibril mechanics were directly due to pseudo-acetylation of cTnI at K132, we exchanged troponin containing WT or K132Q cTnI into isolated myofibrils and measured myofibril mechanical properties. RESULTS Reconstituted thin filaments containing K132Q cTnI exhibited decreased calcium sensitivity compared to thin filaments reconstituted with WT cTnI. Cardiomyocytes expressing K132Q cTnI had faster relengthening and myofibrils isolated from these cells had faster relaxation along with decreased calcium sensitivity compared to cardiomyocytes expressing WT or K132R cTnI. Myofibrils exchanged with K132Q cTnI ex vivo demonstrated faster relaxation and decreased calcium sensitivity. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate for the first time that mimicking acetylation of a specific cTnI lysine accelerates myofilament, myofibril, and myocyte relaxation. This work underscores the importance of understanding how acetylation of specific sarcomeric proteins affects cardiac homeostasis and disease and suggests that modulation of myofilament lysine acetylation may represent a novel therapeutic target to alter cardiac relaxation.
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- Ying H Lin
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America; Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America.
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States of America.
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Persson M, Steinz MM, Westerblad H, Lanner JT, Rassier DE. Force generated by myosin cross-bridges is reduced in myofibrils exposed to ROS/RNS. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2019; 317:C1304-C1312. [DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00272.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Skeletal muscle weakness is associated with oxidative stress and oxidative posttranslational modifications on contractile proteins. There is indirect evidence that reactive oxygen/nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) affect skeletal muscle myofibrillar function, although the details of the acute effects of ROS/RNS on myosin-actin interactions are not known. In this study, we examined the effects of peroxynitrite (ONOO−) on the contractile properties of individual skeletal muscle myofibrils by monitoring myofibril-induced displacements of an atomic force cantilever upon activation and relaxation. The isometric force decreased by ~50% in myofibrils treated with the ONOO− donor (SIN-1) or directly with ONOO−, which was independent of the cross-bridge abundancy condition (i.e., rigor or relaxing condition) during SIN-1 or ONOO− treatment. The force decrease was attributed to an increase in the cross-bridge detachment rate ( gapp) in combination with a conservation of the force redevelopment rate (kTr) and hence, an increase in the population of cross-bridges transitioning from force-generating to non-force-generating cross-bridges during steady-state. Taken together, the results of this study provide important information on how ROS/RNS affect myofibrillar force production which may be of importance for conditions where increased oxidative stress is part of the pathophysiology.
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- Malin Persson
- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Månsson A. The effects of inorganic phosphate on muscle force development and energetics: challenges in modelling related to experimental uncertainties. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2019; 42:33-46. [PMID: 31620962 PMCID: PMC7932973 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-019-09558-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Muscle force and power are developed by myosin cross-bridges, which cyclically attach to actin, undergo a force-generating transition and detach under turnover of ATP. The force-generating transition is intimately associated with release of inorganic phosphate (Pi) but the exact sequence of events in relation to the actual Pi release step is controversial. Details of this process are reflected in the relationships between [Pi] and the developed force and shortening velocity. In order to account for these relationships, models have proposed branched kinetic pathways or loose coupling between biochemical and force-generating transitions. A key hypothesis underlying the present study is that such complexities are not required to explain changes in the force–velocity relationship and ATP turnover rate with altered [Pi]. We therefore set out to test if models without branched kinetic paths and Pi-release occurring before the main force-generating transition can account for effects of varied [Pi] (0.1–25 mM). The models tested, one assuming either linear or non-linear cross-bridge elasticity, account well for critical aspects of muscle contraction at 0.5 mM Pi but their capacity to account for the maximum power output vary. We find that the models, within experimental uncertainties, account for the relationship between [Pi] and isometric force as well as between [Pi] and the velocity of shortening at low loads. However, in apparent contradiction with available experimental findings, the tested models produce an anomalous force–velocity relationship at elevated [Pi] and high loads with more than one possible velocity for a given load. Nevertheless, considering experimental uncertainties and effects of sarcomere non-uniformities, these discrepancies are insufficient to refute the tested models in favour of more complex alternatives.
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- Alf Månsson
- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Linnaeus University, Universitetskajen, 391 82, Kalmar, Sweden.
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Lin YH, Yap J, Ramachandra CJ, Hausenloy DJ. New insights provided by myofibril mechanics in inherited cardiomyopathies. CONDITIONING MEDICINE 2019; 2:213-224. [PMID: 32133438 PMCID: PMC7055865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Cardiomyopathies represent a heterogeneous group of cardiac disorders that perturb cardiac contraction and/or relaxation, and can result in arrhythmias, heart failure, and sudden cardiac death. Based on morphological and functional differences, cardiomyopathies have been classified into hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM). It has been well documented that mutations in genes encoding sarcomeric proteins are associated with the onset of inherited cardiomyopathies. However, correlating patient genotype to the clinical phenotype has been challenging because of the complex genetic backgrounds, environmental influences, and lifestyles of individuals. Thus, "scaling down" the focus to the basic contractile unit of heart muscle using isolated single myofibril function techniques is of great importance and may be used to understand the molecular basis of disease-causing sarcomeric mutations. Single myofibril bundles harvested from diseased human or experimental animal hearts, as well as cultured adult cardiomyocytes or human cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, can be used, thereby providing an ideal multi-level, cross-species platform to dissect sarcomeric function in cardiomyopathies. Here, we will review the myofibril function technique, and discuss alterations in myofibril mechanics, which are known to occur in sarcomeric genetic mutations linked to inherited HCM, DCM, and RCM, and describe the therapeutic potential for future target identification.
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- Ying-Hsi Lin
- National Heart Research Institute Singapore, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore
- Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore
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- Center for Cardiovascular Research, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, USA
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- National Heart Research Institute Singapore, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore
- Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore
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- National Heart Research Institute Singapore, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore
- Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore
- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore
- The Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, University College London, London, UK
- The National Institute of Health Research University College London Hospitals
- Biomedical Research Centre, Research & Development, London, UK
- Tecnologico de Monterrey, Centro de Biotecnologia-FEMSA, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Rahman MA, Ušaj M, Rassier DE, Månsson A. Blebbistatin Effects Expose Hidden Secrets in the Force-Generating Cycle of Actin and Myosin. Biophys J 2019; 115:386-397. [PMID: 30021113 PMCID: PMC6050972 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.05.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2018] [Revised: 05/17/2018] [Accepted: 05/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Cyclic interactions between myosin II motors and actin filaments driven by ATP turnover underlie muscle contraction and have key roles in the motility of nonmuscle cells. A remaining enigma in the understanding of this interaction is the relationship between the force-generating structural change and the release of the ATP-hydrolysis product, inorganic phosphate (Pi), from the active site of myosin. Here, we use the small molecular compound blebbistatin to probe otherwise hidden states and transitions in this process. Different hypotheses for the Pi release mechanism are tested by interpreting experimental results from in vitro motility assays and isolated muscle fibers in terms of mechanokinetic actomyosin models. The data fit with ideas that actomyosin force generation is preceded by Pi release, which in turn is preceded by two serial transitions after/coincident with cross-bridge attachment. Blebbistatin changes the rate limitation of the cycle from the first to the second of these transitions, uncovering functional roles of an otherwise short-lived pre-power stroke state that has been implicated by structural data.
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- Mohammad A Rahman
- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
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Woulfe KC, Ferrara C, Pioner JM, Mahaffey JH, Coppini R, Scellini B, Ferrantini C, Piroddi N, Tesi C, Poggesi C, Jeong M. A Novel Method of Isolating Myofibrils From Primary Cardiomyocyte Culture Suitable for Myofibril Mechanical Study. Front Cardiovasc Med 2019; 6:12. [PMID: 30838216 PMCID: PMC6389618 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2019.00012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Myofibril based mechanical studies allow evaluation of sarcomeric protein function. We describe a novel method of obtaining myofibrils from primary cardiomyocyte culture. Adult rat ventricular myocytes (ARVMs) were obtained by enzymatic digestion and maintained in serum free condition. ARVMs were homogenized in relaxing solution (pCa 9.0) with 20% sucrose, and myofibril suspension was made. Myofibrils were Ca2+-activated and relaxed at 15°C. Results from ARVM myofibrils were compared to myofibrils obtained from ventricular tissue skinned with Triton X-100. At maximal Ca2+-activation (pCa 4.5) myofibril mechanical parameters from ARVMs were 6.8 ± 0.9 mN/mm2 (resting tension), 146.8 ± 13.8 mN/mm2 (maximal active tension, P0), 5.4 ± 0.22 s−1 (rate of force activation), 53.4 ± 4.4 ms (linear relaxation duration), 0.69 ± 0.36 s−1 (linear relaxation rate), and 10.8 ± 1.3 s−1 (exponential relaxation rate). Force-pCa curves were constructed from Triton skinned tissue, ARVM culture day 1, and ARVM culture day 3 myofibrils, and pCa50 were 5.79 ± 0.01, 5.69 ± 0.01, and 5.71 ± 0.01, respectively. Mechanical parameters from myofibrils isolated from ARVMs treated with phenylephrine were compared to myofibrils isolated from time-matched non-treated ARVMs. Phenylephrine treatment did not change the kinetics of activation or relaxation but decreased the pCa50 to 5.56 ± 0.03 (vehicle treated control: 5.67 ± 0.03). For determination of protein expression and post-translational modifications, myofibril slurry was re-suspended and resolved for immunoblotting and protein staining. Troponin I phosphorylation was significantly increased at serine 23/24 in phenylephrine treated group. Myofibrils obtained from ARVMs are a viable method to study myofibril mechanics. Phenylephrine treatment led to significant decrease in Ca2+-sensitivity that is due to increased phosphorylation of TnI at serine 23/24. This culture based approach to obtaining myofibrils will allow pharmacological and genetic manipulation of the cardiomyocytes to correlate biochemical and biophysical properties.
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- Kathleen C Woulfe
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, United States
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- Division of Physiology, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Physiology, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, United States
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- Division of Physiology, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Physiology, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Physiology, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Physiology, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Physiology, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Physiology, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, United States
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Woodward M, Debold EP. Acidosis and Phosphate Directly Reduce Myosin's Force-Generating Capacity Through Distinct Molecular Mechanisms. Front Physiol 2018; 9:862. [PMID: 30042692 PMCID: PMC6048269 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2018] [Accepted: 06/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Elevated levels of the metabolic by-products, including acidosis (i.e., high [H+]) and phosphate (Pi) are putative agents of muscle fatigue; however, the mechanism through which they affect myosin’s function remain unclear. To elucidate these mechanisms, we directly examined the effect of acidosis (pH 6.5 vs. 7.4), alone and in combination with elevated levels of Pi on the force-generating capacity of a mini-ensemble of myosin using a laser trap assay. Acidosis decreased myosin’s average force-generating capacity by 20% (p < 0.05). The reduction was due to both a decrease in the force generated during each actomyosin interaction, as well as an increase in the number of binding events generating negative forces. Adding Pi to the acidic condition resulted in a quantitatively similar decrease in force but was solely due to an elimination of all high force-generating events (>2 pN), resulting from an acceleration of the myosin’s rate of detachment from actin. Acidosis and Pi also had distinct effects on myosin’s steady state ATPase rate with acidosis slowing it by ∼90% (p > 0.05), while the addition of Pi under acidic conditions caused a significant recovery in the ATPase rate. These data suggest that these two fatigue agents have distinct effects on myosin’s cross-bridge cycle that may underlie the synergistic effect that they have muscle force. Thus these data provide novel molecular insight into the mechanisms underlying the depressive effects of Pi and H+ on muscle contraction during fatigue.
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- Mike Woodward
- Muscle Biophysics Lab, Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
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- Muscle Biophysics Lab, Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
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Trexler CL, Odell AT, Jeong MY, Dowell RD, Leinwand LA. Transcriptome and Functional Profile of Cardiac Myocytes Is Influenced by Biological Sex. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018; 10:CIRCGENETICS.117.001770. [PMID: 29030402 PMCID: PMC5679409 DOI: 10.1161/circgenetics.117.001770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2017] [Accepted: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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BACKGROUND Although cardiovascular disease is the primary killer of women in the United States, women and female animals have traditionally been omitted from research studies. In reports that do include both sexes, significant sexual dimorphisms have been demonstrated in development, presentation, and outcome of cardiovascular disease. However, there is little understanding of the mechanisms underlying these observations. A more thorough understanding of sex-specific cardiovascular differences both at baseline and in disease is required to effectively consider and treat all patients with cardiovascular disease. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed contractility in the whole rat heart, adult rat ventricular myocytes (ARVMs), and myofibrils from both sexes of rats and observed functional sex differences at all levels. Hearts and ARVMs from female rats displayed greater fractional shortening than males, and female ARVMs and myofibrils took longer to relax. To define factors underlying these functional differences, we performed an RNA sequencing experiment on ARVMs from male and female rats and identified ≈600 genes were expressed in a sexually dimorphic manner. Further analysis revealed sex-specific enrichment of signaling pathways and key regulators. At the protein level, female ARVMs exhibited higher protein kinase A activity, consistent with pathway enrichment identified through RNA sequencing. In addition, activating the protein kinase A pathway diminished the contractile sexual dimorphisms previously observed. CONCLUSIONS These data support the notion that sex-specific gene expression differences at baseline influence cardiac function, particularly through the protein kinase A pathway, and could potentially be responsible for differences in cardiovascular disease presentation and outcomes.
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- Christa L Trexler
- From the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder (C.L.T., A.T.O., R.D.D., L.A.L.); and Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora (M.Y.J.)
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- From the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder (C.L.T., A.T.O., R.D.D., L.A.L.); and Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora (M.Y.J.)
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- From the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder (C.L.T., A.T.O., R.D.D., L.A.L.); and Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora (M.Y.J.)
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- From the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder (C.L.T., A.T.O., R.D.D., L.A.L.); and Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora (M.Y.J.)
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- From the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder (C.L.T., A.T.O., R.D.D., L.A.L.); and Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora (M.Y.J.).
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Ranatunga KW. Temperature Effects on Force and Actin⁻Myosin Interaction in Muscle: A Look Back on Some Experimental Findings. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:E1538. [PMID: 29786656 PMCID: PMC5983754 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19051538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Revised: 05/14/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Observations made in temperature studies on mammalian muscle during force development, shortening, and lengthening, are re-examined. The isometric force in active muscle goes up substantially on warming from less than 10 °C to temperatures closer to physiological (>30 °C), and the sigmoidal temperature dependence of this force has a half-maximum at ~10 °C. During steady shortening, when force is decreased to a steady level, the sigmoidal curve is more pronounced and shifted to higher temperatures, whereas, in lengthening muscle, the curve is shifted to lower temperatures, and there is a less marked increase with temperature. Even with a small rapid temperature-jump (T-jump), force in active muscle rises in a definitive way. The rate of tension rise is slower with adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and faster with increased phosphate. Analysis showed that a T-jump enhances an early, pre-phosphate release step in the acto-myosin (crossbridge) ATPase cycle, thus inducing a force-rise. The sigmoidal dependence of steady force on temperature is due to this endothermic nature of crossbridge force generation. During shortening, the force-generating step and the ATPase cycle are accelerated, whereas during lengthening, they are inhibited. The endothermic force generation is seen in different muscle types (fast, slow, and cardiac). The underlying mechanism may involve a structural change in attached myosin heads and/or their attachments on heat absorption.
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- K W Ranatunga
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK.
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Karatzaferi C, Adamek N, Geeves MA. Modulators of actin-myosin dissociation: basis for muscle type functional differences during fatigue. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2017; 313:C644-C654. [PMID: 28931538 PMCID: PMC5814585 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00023.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The muscle types present with variable fatigue tolerance, in part due to the myosin isoform expressed. However, the critical steps that define “fatigability” in vivo of fast vs. slow myosin isoforms, at the molecular level, are not yet fully understood. We examined the modulation of the ATP-induced myosin subfragment 1 (S1) dissociation from pyrene-actin by inorganic phosphate (Pi), pH, and temperature using a specially modified stopped-flow system that allowed fast kinetics measurements at physiological temperature. We contrasted the properties of rabbit psoas (fast) and bovine masseter (slow) myosins (obtained from samples collected from New Zealand rabbits and from a licensed abattoir, respectively, according to institutional and national ethics permits). To identify ATP cycling biochemical intermediates, we assessed ATP binding to a preequilibrated mixture of actomyosin and variable [ADP], pH (pH 7 vs. pH 6.2), and Pi (zero, 15, or 30 added mM Pi) in a range of temperatures (5 to 45°C). Temperature and pH variations had little, if any, effect on the ADP dissociation constant (KADP) for fast S1, but for slow S1, KADP was weakened with increasing temperature or low pH. In the absence of ADP, the dissociation constant for phosphate (KPi) was weakened with increasing temperature for fast S1. In the presence of ADP, myosin type differences were revealed at the apparent phosphate affinity, depending on pH and temperature. Overall, the newly revealed kinetic differences between myosin types could help explain the in vivo observed muscle type functional differences at rest and during fatigue.
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- Christina Karatzaferi
- Muscle Physiology and Mechanics Group, DPESS, University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece.,Experimental Myology and Integrative Physiology Cluster, FSHS, University of St Mark and St John , Plymouth , United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom
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Kinetic coupling of phosphate release, force generation and rate-limiting steps in the cross-bridge cycle. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2017; 38:275-289. [PMID: 28918606 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-017-9482-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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A basic goal in muscle research is to understand how the cyclic ATPase activity of cross-bridges is converted into mechanical force. A direct approach to study the chemo-mechanical coupling between Pi release and the force-generating step is provided by the kinetics of force response induced by a rapid change in [Pi]. Classical studies on fibres using caged-Pi discovered that rapid increases in [Pi] induce fast force decays dependent on final [Pi] whose kinetics were interpreted to probe a fast force-generating step prior to Pi release. However, this hypothesis was called into question by studies on skeletal and cardiac myofibrils subjected to Pi jumps in both directions (increases and decreases in [Pi]) which revealed that rapid decreases in [Pi] trigger force rises with slow kinetics, similar to those of calcium-induced force development and mechanically-induced force redevelopment at the same [Pi]. A possible explanation for this discrepancy came from imaging of individual sarcomeres in cardiac myofibrils, showing that the fast force decay upon increase in [Pi] results from so-called sarcomere 'give'. The slow force rise upon decrease in [Pi] was found to better reflect overall sarcomeres cross-bridge kinetics and its [Pi] dependence, suggesting that the force generation coupled to Pi release cannot be separated from the rate-limiting transition. The reasons for the different conclusions achieved in fibre and myofibril studies are re-examined as the recent findings on cardiac myofibrils have fundamental consequences for the coupling between Pi release, rate-limiting steps and force generation. The implications from Pi-induced force kinetics of myofibrils are discussed in combination with historical and recent models of the cross-bridge cycle.
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Smith IC, Vandenboom R, Tupling AR. Contraction-induced enhancement of relaxation during high force contractions of mouse lumbrical muscle at 37°C. J Exp Biol 2017; 220:2870-2873. [PMID: 28576821 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.158998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2017] [Accepted: 05/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Repeated stimulation of unfatigued rodent fast-twitch skeletal muscle accelerates the kinetics of tension relaxation through an unknown mechanism. This effect varies with muscle type and stimulation parameters, and has been observed at physiological temperatures for submaximal but not maximal contractions. The purpose of this study was to compare relaxation kinetics of C57BL/6 mouse lumbrical muscles ex vivo from maximal isometric force (500 Hz for 20 ms) when evoked before (pre) and after (post) an intervening tetanic contraction at 37°C. During post contractions, we noted significant increases in the rate of tension decline during both the slow linear phase and the fast exponential phase of relaxation, as well as a reduced duration of the slow phase of relaxation compared with pre contractions (all P<0.05). This is the first demonstration of enhanced slow and fast relaxation phases from maximal isometric tension induced by prior stimulation in intact muscle at a physiological temperature.
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- Ian C Smith
- Human Performance Lab, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4 .,Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1
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- Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, L2S 3A1
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- Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1
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Stehle R. Force Responses and Sarcomere Dynamics of Cardiac Myofibrils Induced by Rapid Changes in [P i]. Biophys J 2017; 112:356-367. [PMID: 28122221 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Revised: 11/02/2016] [Accepted: 11/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The second phase of the biphasic force decay upon release of phosphate from caged phosphate was previously interpreted as a signature of kinetics of the force-generating step in the cross-bridge cycle. To test this hypothesis without using caged compounds, force responses and individual sarcomere dynamics upon rapid increases or decreases in concentration of inorganic phosphate [Pi] were investigated in calcium-activated cardiac myofibrils. Rapid increases in [Pi] induced a biphasic force decay with an initial slow decline (phase 1) and a subsequent 3-5-fold faster major decay (phase 2). Phase 2 started with the distinct elongation of a single sarcomere, the so-called sarcomere "give". "Give" then propagated from sarcomere to sarcomere along the myofibril. Propagation speed and rate constant of phase 2 (k+Pi(2)) had a similar [Pi]-dependence, indicating that the kinetics of the major force decay (phase 2) upon rapid increase in [Pi] is determined by sarcomere dynamics. In contrast, no "give" was observed during phase 1 after rapid [Pi]-increase (rate constant k+Pi(1)) and during the single-exponential force rise (rate constant k-Pi) after rapid [Pi]-decrease. The values of k+Pi(1) and k-Pi were similar to the rate constant of mechanically induced force redevelopment (kTR) and Ca2+-induced force development (kACT) measured at same [Pi]. These results indicate that the major phase 2 of force decay upon a Pi-jump does not reflect kinetics of the force-generating step but results from sarcomere "give". The other phases of Pi-induced force kinetics that occur in the absence of "give" yield the same information as mechanically and Ca2+-induced force kinetics (k+Pi(1) ∼ k-Pi ∼ kTR ∼ kACT). Model simulations indicate that Pi-induced force kinetics neither enable the separation of Pi-release from the rate-limiting transition f into force states nor differentiate whether the "force-generating step" occurs before, along, or after the Pi-release.
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- Robert Stehle
- Institute of Vegetative Physiology, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany.
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The Relaxation Properties of Myofibrils Are Compromised by Amino Acids that Stabilize α-Tropomyosin. Biophys J 2017; 112:376-387. [PMID: 28122223 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Revised: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 12/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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We investigated the functional impact of α-tropomyosin (Tm) substituted with one (D137L) or two (D137L/G126R) stabilizing amino acid substitutions on the mechanical behavior of rabbit psoas skeletal myofibrils by replacing endogenous Tm and troponin (Tn) with recombinant Tm mutants and purified skeletal Tn. Force recordings from myofibrils (15°C) at saturating [Ca2+] showed that Tm-stabilizing substitutions did not significantly affect the maximal isometric tension and the rates of force activation (kACT) and redevelopment (kTR). However, a clear effect was observed on force relaxation: myofibrils with D137L/G126R or D137L Tm showed prolonged durations of the slow phase of relaxation and decreased rates of the fast phase. Both Tm-stabilizing substitutions strongly decreased the slack sarcomere length (SL) at submaximal activating [Ca2+] and increased the steepness of the SL-passive tension relation. These effects were reversed by addition of 10 mM 2,3-butanedione 2-monoxime. Myofibrils also showed an apparent increase in Ca2+ sensitivity. Measurements of myofibrillar ATPase activity in the absence of Ca2+ showed a significant increase in the presence of these Tms, indicating that single and double stabilizing substitutions compromise the full inhibition of contraction in the relaxed state. These data can be understood with the three-state (blocked-closed-open) theory of muscle regulation, according to which the mutations increase the contribution of the active open state in the absence of Ca2+ (M-). Force measurements on myofibrils substituted with C-terminal truncated TnI showed similar compromised relaxation effects, indicating the importance of TnI-Tm interactions in maintaining the blocked state. It appears that reducing the flexibility of native Tm coiled-coil structure decreases the optimum interactions of the central part of Tm with the C-terminal region of TnI. This results in a shift away from the blocked state, allowing myosin binding and activity in the absence of Ca2+. This work provides a basis for understanding the effects of disease-producing mutations in muscle proteins.
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Wang L, Kazmierczak K, Yuan CC, Yadav S, Kawai M, Szczesna-Cordary D. Cardiac contractility, motor function, and cross-bridge kinetics in N47K-RLC mutant mice. FEBS J 2017; 284:1897-1913. [PMID: 28467684 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2017] [Revised: 03/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We have investigated the physiology and mechanical profiles of skinned papillary muscle fibers from transgenic mice expressing the N47K mutation in the myosin regulatory light chain (RLC), shown to cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in humans. The results were compared with wild-type (WT) mice, both expressing the human ventricular RLC. Rate constants of a cross-bridge (XB) cycle were deduced from tension transients induced by sinusoidal length changes during maximal Ca2+ activation, and were studied as a function of MgATP, MgADP, and Pi concentrations. N47K mutant showed slower XB cycles but higher actin-activated ATPase activity compared with WT. Consequently, N47K exhibited larger tension than WT. K0 (ADP association constant) and K4 (equilibrium constant of force generation) were larger in N47K, and K1 (ATP association constant) was slightly larger in N47K vs. WT, demonstrating stronger nucleotide binding and force generation abilities of the mutant, but no changes in rigor acto-myosin binding were observed. Tension per XB was similar among groups, but N47K exhibited more XB distribution in the attached state. Larger values of tension and higher ATPase in N47K suggested that more cross-bridges participated in tension production in the mutant myocardium compared with WT. In vivo analysis of heart function, performed in ~ 12.5-month-old mice by echocardiography and invasive hemodynamics, demonstrated a significant decrease in dP/dtmax -end-diastolic volume relationship, indicating a depression of ventricular contractility in N47K mice. Our findings suggest that the N47K mutation exerts its action through direct alterations of myosin motor function that ultimately result in pathological hypertrophic remodeling in N47K hearts.
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- Li Wang
- Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, IA, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL, USA
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- Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, IA, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL, USA
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Nocella M, Cecchi G, Colombini B. Phosphate increase during fatigue affects crossbridge kinetics in intact mouse muscle at physiological temperature. J Physiol 2017; 595:4317-4328. [PMID: 28332714 DOI: 10.1113/jp273672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Actomyosin ATP hydrolysis occurring during muscle contraction releases inorganic phosphate [Pi ] in the myoplasm. High [Pi ] reduces force and affects force kinetics in skinned muscle fibres at low temperature. These effects decrease at high temperature, raising the question of their importance under physiological conditions. This study provides the first analysis of the effects of Pi on muscle performance in intact mammalian fibres at physiological temperature. Myoplasmic [Pi ] was raised by fatiguing the fibres with a series of tetanic contractions. [Pi ] increase reduces muscular force mainly by decreasing the force of the single molecular motor, the crossbridge, and alters the crossbridge response to fast length perturbation indicating faster kinetics. These results are in agreement with schemes of actomyosin ATPase and the crossbridge cycle including a low- or no-force state and show that fibre length changes perturb the Pi -sensitive force generation of the crossbridge cycle. ABSTRACT Actomyosin ATP hydrolysis during muscle contraction releases inorganic phosphate, increasing [Pi ] in the myoplasm. Experiments in skinned fibres at low temperature (10-12°C) have shown that [Pi ] increase depresses isometric force and alters the kinetics of actomyosin interaction. However, the effects of Pi decrease with temperature and this raises the question of the role of Pi under physiological conditions. The present experiments were performed to investigate this point. Intact fibre bundles isolated from the flexor digitorum brevis of C57BL/6 mice were stimulated with a series of tetanic contractions at 1.5 s intervals at 33°C. As show previously the most significant change induced by a bout of contractile activity similar to the initial 10 tetani of the series was an increase of [Pi ] without significant Ca2+ or pH changes. Measurements of force, stiffness and responses to fast stretches and releases were therefore made on the 10th tetanus of the series and compared with control. We found that (i) tetanic force at the 10th tetanus was ∼20% smaller than control without a significant decrease of crossbridge stiffness; and (ii) the force recovery following quick stretches and releases was faster than in control. These results indicate that at physiological temperature the increase of [Pi ] occurring during early fatigue reduces tetanic force mainly by depressing the individual crossbridge force and accelerating crossbridge kinetics.
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- M Nocella
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Viale G. B. Morgagni, 63, 50134, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Viale G. B. Morgagni, 63, 50134, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Viale G. B. Morgagni, 63, 50134, Florence, Italy
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Comparison of elementary steps of the cross-bridge cycle in rat papillary muscle fibers expressing α- and β-myosin heavy chain with sinusoidal analysis. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2016; 37:203-214. [PMID: 27942960 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-016-9456-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2016] [Accepted: 09/27/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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In mammalian ventricles, two myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoforms have been identified. Small animals express α-MHC, whereas large animals express β-MHC, which contribute to a large difference in the heart rate. Sprague-Dawley rats possessing ~99% α-MHC were treated with propylthiouracil to result in 100% β-MHC. Papillary muscles were skinned, dissected into small fibers, and used for experiments. To understand the functional difference between α-MHC and β-MHC, skinned-fibers were activated under the intracellular ionic conditions: 5 mM MgATP, 1 mM Mg2+, 8 mM Pi, 200 mM ionic strength, pH 7.00 at 25 °C. Small amplitude sinusoidal length oscillations were applied in the frequency range 0.13-100 Hz (corresponding time domain: 1.6-1200 ms), and effects of Ca2+, Pi, and ATP were studied. The results show that Ca2+ sensitivity was slightly less (10-15%) in β-MHC than α-MHC containing fibers. Sinusoidal analysis at pCa 4.66 (full Ca2+ activation) demonstrated that, the apparent rate constants were 2-4× faster in α-MHC containing fibers. The ATP study demonstrated that, in β-MHC containing fibers, K 1 (ATP association constant) was greater (1.7×), k 2 and k -2 (cross-bridge detachment and its reversal rate constants) were smaller (×0.6). The Pi study demonstrated that, in β-MHC containing fibers, k 4 (rate constant of the force-generation step) and k -4 were smaller (0.75× and 0.25×, respectively), resulting in greater K 4 (3×). There were no differences in active tension, rigor stiffness, or K 2 (equilibrium constant of the cross-bridge detachment step). Our study further demonstrated that there were no differences in parameters between fibers obtained from left and right ventricles, but with an exception in K 5 (Pi association constant).
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Cheng Y, Lindert S, Oxenford L, Tu AY, McCulloch AD, Regnier M. Effects of Cardiac Troponin I Mutation P83S on Contractile Properties and the Modulation by PKA-Mediated Phosphorylation. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:8238-53. [PMID: 27150586 PMCID: PMC5001945 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b01859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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cTnI(P82S) (cTnI(P83S) in rodents) resides at the I-T arm of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and was initially identified as a disease-causing mutation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). However, later studies suggested this may not be true. We recently reported that introduction of an HCM-associated mutation in either inhibitory-peptide (cTnI(R146G)) or cardiac-specific N-terminus (cTnI(R21C)) of cTnI blunts the PKA-mediated modulation on myofibril activation/relaxation kinetics by prohibiting formation of intrasubunit contacts between these regions. Here, we tested whether this also occurs for cTnI(P83S). cTnI(P83S) increased both Ca(2+) binding affinity to cTn (KCa) and affinity of cTnC for cTnI (KC-I), and eliminated the reduction of KCa and KC-I observed for phosphorylated-cTnI(WT). In isolated myofibrils, cTnI(P83S) maintained maximal tension (TMAX) and Ca(2+) sensitivity of tension (pCa50). For cTnI(WT) myofibrils, PKA-mediated phosphorylation decreased pCa50 and sped up the slow-phase relaxation (especially for those Ca(2+) conditions that heart performs in vivo). Those effects were blunted for cTnI(P83S) myofibrils. Molecular-dynamics simulations suggested cTnI(P83S) moderately inhibited an intrasubunit interaction formation between inhibitory-peptide and N-terminus, but this "blunting" effect was weaker than that with cTnI(R146G) or cTnI(R21C). In summary, cTnI(P83S) has similar effects as other HCM-associated cTnI mutations on troponin and myofibril function even though it is in the I-T arm of cTnI.
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- Yuanhua Cheng
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, United States
- National Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, United States
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- National Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, United States
- Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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Tewari SG, Bugenhagen SM, Palmer BM, Beard DA. Dynamics of cross-bridge cycling, ATP hydrolysis, force generation, and deformation in cardiac muscle. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2016; 96:11-25. [PMID: 25681584 PMCID: PMC4532654 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2015.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2014] [Revised: 01/29/2015] [Accepted: 02/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Despite extensive study over the past six decades the coupling of chemical reaction and mechanical processes in muscle dynamics is not well understood. We lack a theoretical description of how chemical processes (metabolite binding, ATP hydrolysis) influence and are influenced by mechanical processes (deformation and force generation). To address this need, a mathematical model of the muscle cross-bridge (XB) cycle based on Huxley's sliding filament theory is developed that explicitly accounts for the chemical transformation events and the influence of strain on state transitions. The model is identified based on elastic and viscous moduli data from mouse and rat myocardial strips over a range of perturbation frequencies, and MgATP and inorganic phosphate (Pi) concentrations. Simulations of the identified model reproduce the observed effects of MgATP and MgADP on the rate of force development. Furthermore, simulations reveal that the rate of force re-development measured in slack-restretch experiments is not directly proportional to the rate of XB cycling. For these experiments, the model predicts that the observed increase in the rate of force generation with increased Pi concentration is due to inhibition of cycle turnover by Pi. Finally, the model captures the observed phenomena of force yielding suggesting that it is a result of rapid detachment of stretched attached myosin heads.
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- Shivendra G Tewari
- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Rospars JP, Meyer-Vernet N. Force per cross-sectional area from molecules to muscles: a general property of biological motors. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2016; 3:160313. [PMID: 27493785 PMCID: PMC4968477 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2016] [Accepted: 06/17/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We propose to formally extend the notion of specific tension, i.e. force per cross-sectional area-classically used for muscles, to quantify forces in molecular motors exerting various biological functions. In doing so, we review and compare the maximum tensions exerted by about 265 biological motors operated by about 150 species of different taxonomic groups. The motors considered range from single molecules and motile appendages of microorganisms to whole muscles of large animals. We show that specific tensions exerted by molecular and non-molecular motors follow similar statistical distributions, with in particular, similar medians and (logarithmic) means. Over the 10(19) mass (M) range of the cell or body from which the motors are extracted, their specific tensions vary as M(α) with α not significantly different from zero. The typical specific tension found in most motors is about 200 kPa, which generalizes to individual molecular motors and microorganisms a classical property of macroscopic muscles. We propose a basic order-of-magnitude interpretation of this result.
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- Jean-Pierre Rospars
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Unité Mixte de Recherche 1392 Institut d'Ecologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement de Paris, 78000 Versailles, France
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- LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, PSL Research University, UPMC, Sorbonne University, Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 92195 Cedex Meudon, France
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Yu H, Chakravorty S, Song W, Ferenczi MA. Phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain of myosin in striated muscle: methodological perspectives. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2016; 45:779-805. [PMID: 27084718 PMCID: PMC5101276 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-016-1128-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2015] [Revised: 03/10/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain (RLC) of myosin modulates cellular functions such as muscle contraction, mitosis, and cytokinesis. Phosphorylation defects are implicated in a number of diseases. Here we focus on striated muscle where changes in RLC phosphorylation relate to diseases such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and muscular dystrophy, or age-related changes. RLC phosphorylation in smooth muscle and non-muscle cells are covered briefly where relevant. There is much scientific interest in controlling the phosphorylation levels of RLC in vivo and in vitro in order to understand its physiological function in striated muscles. A summary of available and emerging in vivo and in vitro methods is presented. The physiological role of RLC phosphorylation and novel pathways are discussed to highlight the differences between muscle types and to gain insights into disease processes.
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- Haiyang Yu
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Experimental Medicine Building, Level 3, 59 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 636921, Singapore
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- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Experimental Medicine Building, Level 3, 59 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 636921, Singapore
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- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Experimental Medicine Building, Level 3, 59 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 636921, Singapore
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- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Experimental Medicine Building, Level 3, 59 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 636921, Singapore.
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Cornachione AS, Leite F, Bagni MA, Rassier DE. The increase in non-cross-bridge forces after stretch of activated striated muscle is related to titin isoforms. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2015; 310:C19-26. [PMID: 26405100 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00156.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Accepted: 09/18/2015] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Skeletal muscles present a non-cross-bridge increase in sarcomere stiffness and tension on Ca(2+) activation, referred to as static stiffness and static tension, respectively. It has been hypothesized that this increase in tension is caused by Ca(2+)-dependent changes in the properties of titin molecules. To verify this hypothesis, we investigated the static tension in muscles containing different titin isoforms. Permeabilized myofibrils were isolated from the psoas, soleus, and heart ventricle from the rabbit, and tested in pCa 9.0 and pCa 4.5, before and after extraction of troponin C, thin filaments, and treatment with the actomyosin inhibitor blebbistatin. The myofibrils were tested with stretches of different amplitudes in sarcomere lengths varying between 1.93 and 3.37 μm for the psoas, 2.68 and 4.21 μm for the soleus, and 1.51 and 2.86 μm for the ventricle. Using gel electrophoresis, we confirmed that the three muscles tested have different titin isoforms. The static tension was present in psoas and soleus myofibrils, but not in ventricle myofibrils, and higher in psoas myofibrils than in soleus myofibrils. These results suggest that the increase in the static tension is directly associated with Ca(2+)-dependent change in titin properties and not associated with changes in titin-actin interactions.
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- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, Scienze Fisiologiche, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and
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Cheng Y, Rao V, Tu AY, Lindert S, Wang D, Oxenford L, McCulloch AD, McCammon JA, Regnier M. Troponin I Mutations R146G and R21C Alter Cardiac Troponin Function, Contractile Properties, and Modulation by Protein Kinase A (PKA)-mediated Phosphorylation. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:27749-66. [PMID: 26391394 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.683045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Two hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-associated cardiac troponin I (cTnI) mutations, R146G and R21C, are located in different regions of cTnI, the inhibitory peptide and the cardiac-specific N terminus. We recently reported that these regions may interact when Ser-23/Ser-24 are phosphorylated, weakening the interaction of cTnI with cardiac TnC. Little is known about how these mutations influence the affinity of cardiac TnC for cTnI (KC-I) or contractile kinetics during β-adrenergic stimulation. Here, we tested how cTnI(R146G) or cTnI(R21C) influences contractile activation and relaxation and their response to protein kinase A (PKA). Both mutations significantly increased Ca(2+) binding affinity to cTn (KCa) and KC-I. PKA phosphorylation resulted in a similar reduction of KCa for all complexes, but KC-I was reduced only with cTnI(WT). cTnI(WT), cTnI(R146G), and cTnI(R21C) were complexed into cardiac troponin and exchanged into rat ventricular myofibrils, and contraction/relaxation kinetics were measured ± PKA phosphorylation. Maximal tension (Tmax) was maintained for cTnI(R146G)- and cTnI(R21C)-exchanged myofibrils, and Ca(2+) sensitivity of tension (pCa50) was increased. PKA phosphorylation decreased pCa50 for cTnI(WT)-exchanged myofibrils but not for either mutation. PKA phosphorylation accelerated the early slow phase relaxation for cTnI(WT) myofibrils, especially at Ca(2+) levels that the heart operates in vivo. Importantly, this effect was blunted for cTnI(R146G)- and cTnI(R21C)-exchanged myofibrils. Molecular dynamics simulations suggest both mutations inhibit formation of intra-subunit contacts between the N terminus and the inhibitory peptide of cTnI that is normally seen with WT-cTn upon PKA phosphorylation. Together, our results suggest that cTnI(R146G) and cTnI(R21C) blunt PKA modulation of activation and relaxation kinetics by prohibiting cardiac-specific N-terminal interaction with the cTnI inhibitory peptide.
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- Yuanhua Cheng
- From the Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, the National Biomedical Computational Resource and
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- From the Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105
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- From the Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105
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- Pharmacology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, and
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- From the Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105
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- From the Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105
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- the National Biomedical Computational Resource and Departments of Bioengineering and
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- the National Biomedical Computational Resource and Pharmacology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, and
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- From the Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, the Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105
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Rao V, Cheng Y, Lindert S, Wang D, Oxenford L, McCulloch AD, McCammon JA, Regnier M. PKA phosphorylation of cardiac troponin I modulates activation and relaxation kinetics of ventricular myofibrils. Biophys J 2015; 107:1196-1204. [PMID: 25185555 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.07.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2014] [Revised: 07/10/2014] [Accepted: 07/15/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Protein kinase A (PKA) phosphorylation of myofibril proteins constitutes an important pathway for β-adrenergic modulation of cardiac contractility and relaxation. PKA targets the N-terminus (Ser-23/24) of cardiac troponin I (cTnI), cardiac myosin-binding protein C (cMyBP-C) and titin. The effect of PKA-mediated phosphorylation on the magnitude of contraction has been studied in some detail, but little is known about how it modulates the kinetics of thin filament activation and myofibril relaxation as Ca(2+) levels vary. Troponin C (cTnC) interaction with cTnI (C-I interaction) is a critical step in contractile activation that can be modulated by cTnI phosphorylation. We tested the hypothesis that altering C-I interactions by PKA, or by cTnI phosphomimetic mutations (S23D/S24D-cTnI), directly affects thin filament activation and myofilament relaxation kinetics. Rat ventricular myofibrils were isolated and endogenous cTn was exchanged with either wild-type cTnI, or S23D/S24D-cTnI recombinant cTn. Contractile mechanics were monitored at maximum and submaximal Ca(2+) concentrations. PKA treatment of wild-type cTn or exchange of cTn containing S23D/S24D-cTnI resulted in an increase in the rate of early, slow phase of relaxation (kREL,slow) and a decrease in its duration (tREL,slow). These effects were greater for submaximal Ca(2+) activated contractions. PKA treatment also reduced the rate of contractile activation (kACT) at maximal, but not submaximal Ca(2+), and reduced the Ca(2+) sensitivity of contraction. Using a fluorescent probe coupled to cTnC (C35S-IANBD), the Ca(2+)-cTn binding affinity and C-I interaction were monitored. Ca(2+) binding to cTn (pCa50) was significantly decreased when cTnI was phosphorylated by PKA (ΔpCa50 = 0.31). PKA phosphorylation of cTnI also weakened C-I interaction in the presence of Ca(2+). These data suggest that weakened C-I interaction, via PKA phosphorylation of cTnI, may slow thin filament activation and result in increased myofilament relaxation kinetics, the latter of which could enhance early phase diastolic relaxation during β-adrenergic stimulation.
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- Vijay Rao
- University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering, Seattle, Washington
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- University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering, Seattle, Washington; National Biomedical Computational Resource, La Jolla, California
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- University of California San Diego, Department of Pharmacology, La Jolla, California
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- University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering, Seattle, Washington
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- University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering, Seattle, Washington
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- University of California San Diego, Department of Bioengineering, La Jolla, California; National Biomedical Computational Resource, La Jolla, California
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- University of California San Diego, Department of Pharmacology, La Jolla, California; National Biomedical Computational Resource, La Jolla, California
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- University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering, Seattle, Washington.
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Caremani M, Melli L, Dolfi M, Lombardi V, Linari M. Force and number of myosin motors during muscle shortening and the coupling with the release of the ATP hydrolysis products. J Physiol 2015; 593:3313-32. [PMID: 26041599 DOI: 10.1113/jp270265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2015] [Accepted: 05/31/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Muscle contraction is due to cyclical ATP-driven working strokes in the myosin motors while attached to the actin filament. Each working stroke is accompanied by the release of the hydrolysis products, orthophosphate and ADP. The rate of myosin-actin interactions increases with the increase in shortening velocity. We used fast half-sarcomere mechanics on skinned muscle fibres to determine the relation between shortening velocity and the number and strain of myosin motors and the effect of orthophosphate concentration. A model simulation of the myosin-actin reaction explains the results assuming that orthophosphate and then ADP are released with rates that increase as the motor progresses through the working stroke. The ADP release rate further increases by one order of magnitude with the rise of negative strain in the final motor conformation. These results provide the molecular explanation of the relation between the rate of energy liberation and shortening velocity during muscle contraction. The chemo-mechanical cycle of the myosin II--actin reaction in situ has been investigated in Ca(2+)-activated skinned fibres from rabbit psoas, by determining the number and strain (s) of myosin motors interacting during steady shortening at different velocities (V) and the effect of raising inorganic phosphate (Pi) concentration. It was found that in control conditions (no added Pi ), shortening at V ≤ 350 nm s(-1) per half-sarcomere, corresponding to force (T) greater than half the isometric force (T0 ), decreases the number of myosin motors in proportion to the reduction of T, so that s remains practically constant and similar to the T0 value independent of V. At higher V the number of motors decreases less than in proportion to T, so that s progressively decreases. Raising Pi concentration by 10 mM, which reduces T0 and the number of motors by 40-50%, does not influence the dependence on V of number and strain. A model simulation of the myosin-actin reaction in which the structural transitions responsible for the myosin working stroke and the release of the hydrolysis products are orthogonal explains the results assuming that Pi and then ADP are released with rates that increase as the motor progresses through the working stroke. The rate of ADP release from the conformation at the end of the working stroke is also strain-sensitive, further increasing by one order of magnitude within a few nanometres of negative strain. These results provide the molecular explanation of the relation between the rate of energy liberation and the load during muscle contraction.
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- Marco Caremani
- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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Poorly understood aspects of striated muscle contraction. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2015; 2015:245154. [PMID: 25961006 PMCID: PMC4415482 DOI: 10.1155/2015/245154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2014] [Accepted: 10/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Muscle contraction results from cyclic interactions between the contractile proteins myosin and actin, driven by the turnover of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Despite intense studies, several molecular events in the contraction process are poorly understood, including the relationship between force-generation and phosphate-release in the ATP-turnover. Different aspects of the force-generating transition are reflected in the changes in tension development by muscle cells, myofibrils and single molecules upon changes in temperature, altered phosphate concentration, or length perturbations. It has been notoriously difficult to explain all these events within a given theoretical framework and to unequivocally correlate observed events with the atomic structures of the myosin motor. Other incompletely understood issues include the role of the two heads of myosin II and structural changes in the actin filaments as well as the importance of the three-dimensional order. We here review these issues in relation to controversies regarding basic physiological properties of striated muscle. We also briefly consider actomyosin mutation effects in cardiac and skeletal muscle function and the possibility to treat these defects by drugs.
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Racca AW, Beck AE, McMillin MJ, Korte FS, Bamshad MJ, Regnier M. The embryonic myosin R672C mutation that underlies Freeman-Sheldon syndrome impairs cross-bridge detachment and cycling in adult skeletal muscle. Hum Mol Genet 2015; 24:3348-58. [PMID: 25740846 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddv084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Accepted: 03/02/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Distal arthrogryposis is the most common known heritable cause of congenital contractures (e.g. clubfoot) and results from mutations in genes that encode proteins of the contractile complex of skeletal muscle cells. Mutations are most frequently found in MYH3 and are predicted to impair the function of embryonic myosin. We measured the contractile properties of individual skeletal muscle cells and the activation and relaxation kinetics of isolated myofibrils from two adult individuals with an R672C substitution in embryonic myosin and distal arthrogryposis syndrome 2A (DA2A) or Freeman-Sheldon syndrome. In R672C-containing muscle cells, we observed reduced specific force, a prolonged time to relaxation and incomplete relaxation (elevated residual force). In R672C-containing muscle myofibrils, the initial, slower phase of relaxation had a longer duration and slower rate, and time to complete relaxation was greatly prolonged. These observations can be collectively explained by a small subpopulation of myosin cross-bridges with greatly reduced detachment kinetics, resulting in a slower and less complete deactivation of thin filaments at the end of contractions. These findings have important implications for selecting and testing directed therapeutic options for persons with DA2A and perhaps congenital contractures in general.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA and
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Papp Z, van der Velden J, Borbély A, Édes I, Stienen GJM. Altered myocardial force generation in end-stage human heart failure. ESC Heart Fail 2015; 1:160-165. [PMID: 28834631 DOI: 10.1002/ehf2.12020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2014] [Revised: 11/07/2014] [Accepted: 11/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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AIMS This study aimed to elucidate the molecular background of increased Ca2+ sensitivity of force production in cardiomyocytes of end-stage human heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS Ca2+ -activated isometric force and the cross-bridge specific rate of force redevelopment (ktr ) were determined in Triton-skinned myocytes from end-stage failing and non-failing donor hearts. Measurements (control: pH 7.2, 0 mM inorganic phosphate (Pi )) were performed under test conditions that probed either the Ca2+ -regulatory function of the thin filaments (pH 6.5), the kinetics of the actin-myosin cross-bridge cycle (10 mM Pi ), or both (pH 6.5, 10 mM Pi ). The control maximal Ca2+ -activated force (Fo ) and ktrmax did not differ between failing and non-failing myocytes. At submaximal [Ca2+ ], however, both force and ktr were higher in failing than in donor myocytes. The difference in the Ca2+ sensitivities of force production was preserved when the thin filament regulatory function was perturbed by acidosis (pH 6.5) but was abolished by cross-bridge modulation (i.e. by Pi ) both at pH 7.2 and at pH 6.5. Pi induced a larger reduction in force but a smaller increase in ktr in the failing myocytes than in the non-failing myocytes at submaximal [Ca2+ ]. CONCLUSION The enhanced Pi sensitivity of the actin-myosin interaction suggests that the Pi release step of the actin-myosin cross-bridge cycle is modified during end-stage human heart failure. This might be of functional importance when Pi accumulates (e.g. during cardiac ischaemia). Moreover, this alteration can influence cardiac energetics and the clinical efficacy of sarcomere targeted agents in human heart failure.
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- Zoltán Papp
- Division of Clinical Physiology, Institute of Cardiology, University of Debrecen, 4032, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Laboratory for Physiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Division of Clinical Physiology, Institute of Cardiology, University of Debrecen, 4032, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Division of Clinical Physiology, Institute of Cardiology, University of Debrecen, 4032, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Laboratory for Physiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Impact of tropomyosin isoform composition on fast skeletal muscle thin filament regulation and force development. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2014; 36:11-23. [PMID: 25380572 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-014-9394-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2014] [Accepted: 10/17/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Tropomyosin (Tm) plays a central role in the regulation of muscle contraction and is present in three main isoforms in skeletal and cardiac muscles. In the present work we studied the functional role of α- and βTm on force development by modifying the isoform composition of rabbit psoas skeletal muscle myofibrils and of regulated thin filaments for in vitro motility measurements. Skeletal myofibril regulatory proteins were extracted (78%) and replaced (98%) with Tm isoforms as homogenous ααTm or ββTm dimers and the functional effects were measured. Maximal Ca(2+) activated force was the same in ααTm versus ββTm myofibrils, but ββTm myofibrils showed a marked slowing of relaxation and an impairment of regulation under resting conditions compared to ααTm and controls. ββTm myofibrils also showed a significantly shorter slack sarcomere length and a marked increase in resting tension. Both these mechanical features were almost completely abolished by 10 mM 2,3-butanedione 2-monoxime, suggesting the presence of a significant degree of Ca(2+)-independent cross-bridge formation in ββTm myofibrils. Finally, in motility assay experiments in the absence of Ca(2+) (pCa 9.0), complete regulation of thin filaments required greater ββTm versus ααTm concentrations, while at full activation (pCa 5.0) no effect was observed on maximal thin filament motility speed. We infer from these observations that high contents of ββTm in skeletal muscle result in partial Ca(2+)-independent activation of thin filaments at rest, and longer-lasting and less complete tension relaxation following Ca(2+) removal.
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Wang L, Ji X, Barefield D, Sadayappan S, Kawai M. Phosphorylation of cMyBP-C affects contractile mechanisms in a site-specific manner. Biophys J 2014; 106:1112-22. [PMID: 24606935 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2013] [Revised: 01/18/2014] [Accepted: 01/23/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Cardiac myosin binding protein-C (cMyBP-C) is a cardiac-specific, thick-filament regulatory protein that is differentially phosphorylated at Ser(273), Ser(282), and Ser(302) by various kinases and modulates contraction. In this study, phosphorylation-site-specific effects of cMyBP-C on myocardial contractility and cross-bridge kinetics were studied by sinusoidal analysis in papillary and trabecular muscle fibers isolated from t/t (cMyBP-C-null) mice and in their counterparts in which cMyBP-C contains the ADA (Ala(273)-Asp(282)-Ala(302)), DAD (Asp(273)-Ala(282)-Asp(302)), and SAS (Ser(273)-Ala(282)-Ser(302)) mutations; the results were compared to those from mice expressing the wild-type (WT) transgene on the t/t background. Under standard activating conditions, DAD fibers showed significant decreases in tension (~50%), stiffness, the fast apparent rate constant 2πc, and its magnitude C, as well as its magnitude H, but an increase in the medium rate constant 2πb, with respect to WT. The t/t fibers showed a smaller drop in stiffness and a significant decrease in 2πc that can be explained by isoform shift of myosin heavy chain. In the pCa-tension study using the 8 mM phosphate (Pi) solution, there was hardly any difference in Ca(2+) sensitivity (pCa50) and cooperativity (nH) between the mutant and WT samples. However, in the solutions without Pi, DAD showed increased nH and slightly decreased pCa50. We infer from these observations that the nonphosphorylatable residue 282 combined with phosphomimetic residues Asp(273) and/or Asp(302) (in DAD) is detrimental to cardiomyocytes by lowering isometric tension and altering cross-bridge kinetics with decreased 2πc and increased 2πb. In contrast, a single change of residue 282 to nonphosphorylatable Ala (SAS), or to phosphomimetic Asps together with the changes of residues 273 and 302 to nonphosphorylatable Ala (ADA) causes minute changes in fiber mechanics.
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- Li Wang
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; School of Nursing, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
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A new mechanokinetic model for muscle contraction, where force and movement are triggered by phosphate release. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2014; 35:295-306. [PMID: 25319769 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-014-9391-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2014] [Accepted: 09/26/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The atomic structure of myosin-S1 suggests that its working stroke, which generates tension and shortening in muscle, is triggered by the release of inorganic phosphate from the active site. This mechanism is the basis of a new mechanokinetic model for contractility, using the biochemical actomyosin ATPase cycle, strain-dependent kinetics and dimeric myosins on buckling rods. In this model, phosphate-dependent aspects of contractility arise from a rapid reversible release of phosphate from the initial bound state (A.M.ADP.Pi), which triggers the stroke. Added phosphate drives bound myosin towards this initial state, and the transient tension response to a phosphate jump reflects the rate at which it detaches from actin. Predictions for the tensile and energetic properties of striated muscle as a function of phosphate level, including the tension responses to length steps and Pi-jumps, are compared with experimental data from rabbit psoas fibres at 10 °C. The phosphate sensitivity of isometric tension is maximal when the actin affinity of M.ADP.Pi is near unity. Hence variations in actin affinity modulate the phosphate dependence of isometric tension, and may explain why phosphate sensitivity is temperature-dependent or absent in different muscles.
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