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Buonfiglio V, Pertici I, Marcello M, Morotti I, Caremani M, Reconditi M, Linari M, Fanelli D, Lombardi V, Bianco P. Force and kinetics of fast and slow muscle myosin determined with a synthetic sarcomere-like nanomachine. Commun Biol 2024; 7:361. [PMID: 38521889 PMCID: PMC10960843 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06033-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Myosin II is the muscle molecular motor that works in two bipolar arrays in each thick filament of the striated (skeletal and cardiac) muscle, converting the chemical energy into steady force and shortening by cyclic ATP-driven interactions with the nearby actin filaments. Different isoforms of the myosin motor in the skeletal muscles account for the different functional requirements of the slow muscles (primarily responsible for the posture) and fast muscles (responsible for voluntary movements). To clarify the molecular basis of the differences, here the isoform-dependent mechanokinetic parameters underpinning the force of slow and fast muscles are defined with a unidimensional synthetic nanomachine powered by pure myosin isoforms from either slow or fast rabbit skeletal muscle. Data fitting with a stochastic model provides a self-consistent estimate of all the mechanokinetic properties of the motor ensemble including the motor force, the fraction of actin-attached motors and the rate of transition through the attachment-detachment cycle. The achievements in this paper set the stage for any future study on the emergent mechanokinetic properties of an ensemble of myosin molecules either engineered or purified from mutant animal models or human biopsies.
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy.
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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Marcello M, Cetrangolo V, Morotti I, Squarci C, Caremani M, Reconditi M, Savarese M, Bianco P, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Udd B, Conte I, Nigro V, Linari M. Sarcomere level mechanics of the fast skeletal muscle of the medaka fish larva. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2024; 326:C632-C644. [PMID: 38145303 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00530.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2023] [Revised: 12/17/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 12/26/2023]
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The medaka fish (Oryzias latipes) is a vertebrate model used in developmental biology and genetics. Here we explore its suitability as a model for investigating the molecular mechanisms of human myopathies caused by mutations in sarcomeric proteins. To this end, the relevant mechanical parameters of the intact skeletal muscle of wild-type medaka are determined using the transparent tail at larval stage 40. Tails were mounted at sarcomere length of 2.1 μm in a thermoregulated trough containing physiological solution. Tetanic contractions were elicited at physiological temperature (10°C-30°C) by electrical stimulation, and sarcomere length changes were recorded with nanometer-microsecond resolution during both isometric and isotonic contractions with a striation follower. The force output has been normalized for the actual fraction of the cross section of the tail occupied by the myofilament lattice, as established with transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and then for the actual density of myofilaments, as established with X-ray diffraction. Under these conditions, the mechanical performance of the contracting muscle of the wild-type larva can be defined at the level of the half-thick filament, where ∼300 myosin motors work in parallel as a collective motor, allowing a detailed comparison with the established performance of the skeletal muscle of different vertebrates. The results of this study point out that the medaka fish larva is a suitable model for the investigation of the genotype/phenotype correlations and therapeutic possibilities in skeletal muscle diseases caused by mutations in sarcomeric proteins.NEW & NOTEWORTHY The suitability of the medaka fish as a model for investigating the molecular mechanisms of human myopathies caused by mutations of sarcomeric proteins is tested by combining structural analysis and sarcomere-level mechanics of the skeletal muscle of the tail of medaka larva. The mechanical performance of the medaka muscle, scaled at the level of the myosin-containing thick filament, together with its reduced genome duplication makes this model unique for investigations of the genotype/phenotype correlations in human myopathies.
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli, Italy
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- Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
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- Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
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- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli, Italy
- Department of Biology, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
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- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli, Italy
- Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania, Naples, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Caremani M, Fusi L, Reconditi M, Piazzesi G, Narayanan T, Irving M, Lombardi V, Linari M, Brunello E. Dependence of myosin filament structure on intracellular calcium concentration in skeletal muscle. J Gen Physiol 2023; 155:e202313393. [PMID: 37756601 PMCID: PMC10533363 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202313393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Revised: 07/15/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Contraction of skeletal muscle is triggered by an increase in intracellular calcium concentration that relieves the structural block on actin-binding sites in resting muscle, potentially allowing myosin motors to bind and generate force. However, most myosin motors are not available for actin binding because they are stabilized in folded helical tracks on the surface of myosin-containing thick filaments. High-force contraction depends on the release of the folded motors, which can be triggered by stress in the thick filament backbone, but additional mechanisms may link the activation of the thick filaments to that of the thin filaments or to intracellular calcium concentration. Here, we used x-ray diffraction in combination with temperature-jump activation to determine the steady-state calcium dependence of thick filament structure and myosin motor conformation in near-physiological conditions. We found that x-ray signals associated with the perpendicular motors characteristic of isometric force generation had almost the same calcium sensitivity as force, but x-ray signals associated with perturbations in the folded myosin helix had a much higher calcium sensitivity. Moreover, a new population of myosin motors with a longer axial periodicity became prominent at low levels of calcium activation and may represent an intermediate regulatory state of the myosin motors in the physiological pathway of filament activation.
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- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics and British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, King’s College London, London, UK
- Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Florence, Italy
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- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics and British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, King’s College London, London, UK
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Florence, Italy
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- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics and British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, King’s College London, London, UK
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Pertici I, Bongini L, Caremani M, Reconditi M, Linari M, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Bianco P. Matching Mechanics and Energetics of Muscle Contraction Suggests Unconventional Chemomechanical Coupling during the Actin-Myosin Interaction. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:12324. [PMID: 37569700 PMCID: PMC10418673 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241512324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2023] Open
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The mechanical performances of the vertebrate skeletal muscle during isometric and isotonic contractions are interfaced with the corresponding energy consumptions to define the coupling between mechanical and biochemical steps in the myosin-actin energy transduction cycle. The analysis is extended to a simplified synthetic nanomachine in which eight HMM molecules purified from fast mammalian skeletal muscle are brought to interact with an actin filament in the presence of 2 mM ATP, to assess the emergent properties of a minimum number of motors working in ensemble without the effects of both the higher hierarchical levels of striated muscle organization and other sarcomeric, regulatory and cytoskeleton proteins. A three-state model of myosin-actin interaction is able to predict the known relationships between energetics and transient and steady-state mechanical properties of fast skeletal muscle either in vivo or in vitro only under the assumption that during shortening a myosin motor can interact with two actin sites during one ATP hydrolysis cycle. Implementation of the molecular details of the model should be achieved by exploiting kinetic and structural constraints present in the transients elicited by stepwise perturbations in length or force superimposed on the isometric contraction.
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; (I.P.); (L.B.); (M.C.); (M.R.); (M.L.); (G.P.); (P.B.)
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Caremani M, Marcello M, Morotti I, Pertici I, Squarci C, Reconditi M, Bianco P, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Linari M. The force of the myosin motor sets cooperativity in thin filament activation of skeletal muscles. Commun Biol 2022; 5:1266. [DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-04184-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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AbstractContraction of striated muscle is regulated by a dual mechanism involving both thin, actin-containing filament and thick, myosin-containing filament. Thin filament is activated by Ca2+ binding to troponin, leading to tropomyosin displacement that exposes actin sites for interaction with myosin motors, extending from the neighbouring stress-activated thick filaments. Motor attachment to actin contributes to spreading activation along the thin filament, through a cooperative mechanism, still unclear, that determines the slope of the sigmoidal relation between isometric force and pCa (−log[Ca2+]), estimated by Hill coefficient nH. We use sarcomere-level mechanics in demembranated fibres of rabbit skeletal muscle activated by Ca2+ at different temperatures (12–35 °C) to show that nH depends on the motor force at constant number of attached motors. The definition of the role of motor force provides fundamental constraints for modelling the dynamics of thin filament activation and defining the action of small molecules as possible therapeutic tools.
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Squarci C, Bianco P, Reconditi M, Pertici I, Caremani M, Narayanan T, Horvath AI, Malnasi-Csizmadia A, Linari M, Lombardi V, Piazzesi G. Passive and active mechanical properties of titin studied in intact frog muscle fibers upon inhibition of myosin motors by para-nitro-blebbistatin. Biophys J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.11.2713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Lombardi V, Reconditi M, Caremani M, Linari M, Marcello M, Morotti I, Narayanan T, Piazzesi G. Low temperature and omecamtiv mecarbil affect the regulatory state of the thick filament of cardiac myocytes in diastole. Biophys J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.11.2530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Marcello M, Gallart C, Pertici I, Reconditi M, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Linari M, Caremani M. The mechanism of cooperativity in thin filament activation studied in demembranated fibers of slow skeletal muscle. Biophys J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.11.2717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Reconditi M, Brunello E, Fusi L, Linari M, Lombardi V, Irving M, Piazzesi G. Myosin motors that cannot bind actin leave their folded OFF state on activation of skeletal muscle. J Gen Physiol 2021; 153:212712. [PMID: 34668926 PMCID: PMC8532561 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202112896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
The myosin motors in resting skeletal muscle are folded back against their tails in the thick filament in a conformation that makes them unavailable for binding to actin. When muscles are activated, calcium binding to troponin leads to a rapid change in the structure of the actin-containing thin filaments that uncovers the myosin binding sites on actin. Almost as quickly, myosin motors leave the folded state and move away from the surface of the thick filament. To test whether motor unfolding is triggered by the availability of nearby actin binding sites, we measured changes in the x-ray reflections that report motor conformation when muscles are activated at longer sarcomere length, so that part of the thick filaments no longer overlaps with thin filaments. We found that the intensity of the M3 reflection from the axial repeat of the motors along the thick filaments declines almost linearly with increasing sarcomere length up to 2.8 µm, as expected if motors in the nonoverlap zone had left the folded state and become relatively disordered. In a recent article in JGP, Squire and Knupp challenged this interpretation of the data. We show here that their analysis is based on an incorrect assumption about how the interference subpeaks of the M3 reflection were reported in our previous paper. We extend previous models of mass distribution along the filaments to show that the sarcomere length dependence of the M3 reflection is consistent with <10% of no-overlap motors remaining in the folded conformation during active contraction, confirming our previous conclusion that unfolding of myosin motors on muscle activation is not due to the availability of local actin binding sites.
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- Massimo Reconditi
- PhysioLab, Università di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.,Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Unità di Ricerca Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London, UK
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- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London, UK
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- PhysioLab, Università di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London, UK
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Caremani M, Fusi L, Linari M, Reconditi M, Piazzesi G, Irving TC, Narayanan T, Irving M, Lombardi V, Brunello E. Dependence of thick filament structure in relaxed mammalian skeletal muscle on temperature and interfilament spacing. J Gen Physiol 2021; 153:211664. [PMID: 33416833 PMCID: PMC7802359 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202012713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Contraction of skeletal muscle is regulated by structural changes in both actin-containing thin filaments and myosin-containing thick filaments, but myosin-based regulation is unlikely to be preserved after thick filament isolation, and its structural basis remains poorly characterized. Here, we describe the periodic features of the thick filament structure in situ by high-resolution small-angle x-ray diffraction and interference. We used both relaxed demembranated fibers and resting intact muscle preparations to assess whether thick filament regulation is preserved in demembranated fibers, which have been widely used for previous studies. We show that the thick filaments in both preparations exhibit two closely spaced axial periodicities, 43.1 nm and 45.5 nm, at near-physiological temperature. The shorter periodicity matches that of the myosin helix, and x-ray interference between the two arrays of myosin in the bipolar filament shows that all zones of the filament follow this periodicity. The 45.5-nm repeat has no helical component and originates from myosin layers closer to the filament midpoint associated with the titin super-repeat in that region. Cooling relaxed or resting muscle, which partially mimics the effects of calcium activation on thick filament structure, disrupts the helical order of the myosin motors, and they move out from the filament backbone. Compression of the filament lattice of demembranated fibers by 5% Dextran, which restores interfilament spacing to that in intact muscle, stabilizes the higher-temperature structure. The axial periodicity of the filament backbone increases on cooling, but in lattice-compressed fibers the periodicity of the myosin heads does not follow the extension of the backbone. Thick filament structure in lattice-compressed demembranated fibers at near-physiological temperature is similar to that in intact resting muscle, suggesting that the native structure of the thick filament is largely preserved after demembranation in these conditions, although not in the conditions used for most previous studies with this preparation.
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- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London, UK
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.,Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Firenze, Italy
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.,Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Firenze, Italy
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- Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation and Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
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- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London, UK
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.,Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London, UK
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Governali S, Caremani M, Gallart C, Pertici I, Stienen G, Piazzesi G, Ottenheijm C, Lombardi V, Linari M. Orthophosphate increases the efficiency of slow muscle-myosin isoform in the presence of omecamtiv mecarbil. Nat Commun 2020; 11:3405. [PMID: 32636378 PMCID: PMC7341760 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17143-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2019] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Omecamtiv mecarbil (OM) is a putative positive inotropic tool for treatment of systolic heart dysfunction, based on the finding that in vivo it increases the ejection fraction and in vitro it prolongs the actin-bond life time of the cardiac and slow-skeletal muscle isoforms of myosin. OM action in situ, however, is still poorly understood as the enhanced Ca2+-sensitivity of the myofilaments is at odds with the reduction of force and rate of force development observed at saturating Ca2+. Here we show, by combining fast sarcomere-level mechanics and ATPase measurements in single slow demembranated fibres from rabbit soleus, that the depressant effect of OM on the force per attached motor is reversed, without effect on the ATPase rate, by physiological concentrations of inorganic phosphate (Pi) (1-10 mM). This mechanism could underpin an energetically efficient reduction of systolic tension cost in OM-treated patients, whenever [Pi] increases with heart-beat frequency. Omecamtiv mecarbil is a small molecule effector under clinical trial for the treatment of systolic heart failure. Here the authors define the molecular mechanisms of its inotropic action and find it can increase the efficiency of contraction in muscle fibres when the orthophosphate concentration rises with the beat frequency.
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- Serena Governali
- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy.,Department of Physiology, Amsterdam UMC (location VUmc), 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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- Department of Physiology, Amsterdam UMC (location VUmc), 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Physiology, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, Tanzania
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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- Department of Physiology, Amsterdam UMC (location VUmc), 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy.
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy
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Linari M, Piazzesi G, Pertici I, Dantzig JA, Goldman YE, Lombardi V. Straightening Out the Elasticity of Myosin Cross-Bridges. Biophys J 2020; 118:994-1002. [PMID: 31968230 PMCID: PMC7063436 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2019] [Revised: 12/21/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
In a contracting muscle, myosin cross-bridges extending from thick filaments pull the interdigitating thin (actin-containing) filaments during cyclical ATP-driven interactions toward the center of the sarcomere, the structural unit of striated muscle. Cross-bridge attachments in the sarcomere have been reported to exhibit a similar stiffness under both positive and negative forces. However, in vitro measurements on filaments with a sparse complement of heads detected a decrease of the cross-bridge stiffness at negative forces attributed to the buckling of the subfragment 2 tail portion. Here, we review some old and new data that confirm that cross-bridge stiffness is nearly linear in the muscle filament lattice. The implications of high myosin stiffness at positive and negative strains are considered in muscle fibers and in nonmuscle intracellular cargo transport.
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- Marco Linari
- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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- PhysioLab, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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Caremani M, Governali S, Reconditi M, Pinzauti F, Narayanan T, Stienen GJ, Linari M, Lombardi V, Piazzesi G. Modumodulation by Inotropic Interventions of the Regulatory State of the Cardiac Thick Filament in Diastole. Biophys J 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.11.3212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Filomena MC, Yamamoto DL, Caremani M, Kadarla VK, Mastrototaro G, Serio S, Vydyanath A, Mutarelli M, Garofalo A, Pertici I, Knöll R, Nigro V, Luther PK, Lieber RL, Beck MR, Linari M, Bang M. Myopalladin promotes muscle growth through modulation of the serum response factor pathway. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle 2020; 11:169-194. [PMID: 31647200 PMCID: PMC7015241 DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.12486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2019] [Revised: 07/01/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Myopalladin (MYPN) is a striated muscle-specific, immunoglobulin-containing protein located in the Z-line and I-band of the sarcomere as well as the nucleus. Heterozygous MYPN gene mutations are associated with hypertrophic, dilated, and restrictive cardiomyopathy, and homozygous loss-of-function truncating mutations have recently been identified in patients with cap myopathy, nemaline myopathy, and congenital myopathy with hanging big toe. METHODS Constitutive MYPN knockout (MKO) mice were generated, and the role of MYPN in skeletal muscle was studied through molecular, cellular, biochemical, structural, biomechanical, and physiological studies in vivo and in vitro. RESULTS MKO mice were 13% smaller compared with wild-type controls and exhibited a 48% reduction in myofibre cross-sectional area (CSA) and significantly increased fibre number. Similarly, reduced myotube width was observed in MKO primary myoblast cultures. Biomechanical studies showed reduced isometric force and power output in MKO mice as a result of the reduced CSA, whereas the force developed by each myosin molecular motor was unaffected. While the performance by treadmill running was similar in MKO and wild-type mice, MKO mice showed progressively decreased exercise capability, Z-line damage, and signs of muscle regeneration following consecutive days of downhill running. Additionally, MKO muscle exhibited progressive Z-line widening starting from 8 months of age. RNA-sequencing analysis revealed down-regulation of serum response factor (SRF)-target genes in muscles from postnatal MKO mice, important for muscle growth and differentiation. The SRF pathway is regulated by actin dynamics as binding of globular actin to the SRF-cofactor myocardin-related transcription factor A (MRTF-A) prevents its translocation to the nucleus where it binds and activates SRF. MYPN was found to bind and bundle filamentous actin as well as interact with MRTF-A. In particular, while MYPN reduced actin polymerization, it strongly inhibited actin depolymerization and consequently increased MRTF-A-mediated activation of SRF signalling in myogenic cells. Reduced myotube width in MKO primary myoblast cultures was rescued by transduction with constitutive active SRF, demonstrating that MYPN promotes skeletal muscle growth through activation of the SRF pathway. CONCLUSIONS Myopalladin plays a critical role in the control of skeletal muscle growth through its effect on actin dynamics and consequently the SRF pathway. In addition, MYPN is important for the maintenance of Z-line integrity during exercise and aging. These results suggest that muscle weakness in patients with biallelic MYPN mutations may be associated with reduced myofibre CSA and SRF signalling and that the disease phenotype may be aggravated by exercise.
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- Maria Carmela Filomena
- Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB), Milan UnitNational Research CouncilMilanItaly
- Humanitas Clinical and Research CenterRozzanoMilanItaly
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- Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB), Milan UnitNational Research CouncilMilanItaly
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of FlorenceSesto FiorentinoFlorenceItaly
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- Humanitas Clinical and Research CenterRozzanoMilanItaly
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- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM)PozzuoliItaly
- Department of Precision MedicineUniversity of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”NaplesItaly
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of FlorenceSesto FiorentinoFlorenceItaly
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- Integrated Cardio Metabolic Centre (ICMC), Myocardial GeneticsKarolinska Institutet, University Hospital, Heart and Vascular ThemeSweden
- Research and Early Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Diseases (CVRM), Biopharmaceuticals R&DAstraZenecaMölndalSweden
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- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM)PozzuoliItaly
- Department of Precision MedicineUniversity of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”NaplesItaly
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Hines V.A. Medical Center ChicagoChicagoILUSA
- Department of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
- Department of Orthopaedic SurgeryUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCAUSA
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- Department of ChemistryWichita State UniversityWichitaKSUSA
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of FlorenceSesto FiorentinoFlorenceItaly
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- Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB), Milan UnitNational Research CouncilMilanItaly
- Humanitas Clinical and Research CenterRozzanoMilanItaly
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Caremani M, Brunello E, Linari M, Fusi L, Irving TC, Gore D, Piazzesi G, Irving M, Lombardi V, Reconditi M. Low temperature traps myosin motors of mammalian muscle in a refractory state that prevents activation. J Gen Physiol 2019; 151:1272-1286. [PMID: 31554652 PMCID: PMC6829559 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201912424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2019] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The active force of mammalian skeletal muscle is reduced at low temperatures. Caremani et al. reveal that this is due to the rise of a population of myosin motors captured in a refractory state insensitive to muscle activation. Myosin motors in the thick filament of resting striated (skeletal and cardiac) muscle are trapped in an OFF state, in which the motors are packed in helical tracks on the filament surface, inhibiting their interactions with actin and utilization of ATP. To investigate the structural changes induced in the thick filament of mammalian skeletal muscle by changes in temperature, we collected x-ray diffraction patterns from the fast skeletal muscle extensor digitorum longus of the mouse in the temperature range from near physiological (35°C) to 10°C, in which the maximal isometric force (T0) shows a threefold decrease. In resting muscle, x-ray reflections signaling the OFF state of the thick filament indicate that cooling produces a progressive disruption of the OFF state with motors moving away from the ordered helical tracks on the surface of the thick filament. We find that the number of myosin motors in the OFF state at 10°C is half of that at 35°C. At T0, changes in the x-ray signals that report the fraction and conformation of actin-attached motors can be explained if the threefold decrease in force associated with lowering temperature is due not only to a decrease in the force-generating transition in the actin-attached motors but also to a twofold decrease in the number of such motors. Thus, lowering the temperature reduces to the same extent the fraction of motors in the OFF state at rest and the fraction of motors attached to actin at T0, suggesting that motors that leave the OFF state accumulate in a disordered refractory state that makes them unavailable for interaction with actin upon stimulation. This regulatory effect of temperature on the thick filament of mammalian skeletal muscle could represent an energetically convenient mechanism for hibernating animals.
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.,Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Firenze, Italy
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- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London, UK
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- Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation and Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
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- Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation and Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
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- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London, UK
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.,Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Firenze, Italy
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Reconditi M, Fusi L, Caremani M, Brunello E, Linari M, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Irving M. Thick Filament Length Changes in Muscle Have Both Elastic and Structural Components. Biophys J 2019; 116:983-984. [PMID: 30837077 PMCID: PMC6428937 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 01/20/2019] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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- Randall Centre, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Randall Centre, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
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Caremani M, Gallart C, Pertici I, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Linari M. Cooperativity in Thin Filament Activation Depends on the Force of the Myosin Motor. Biophys J 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.11.2171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Caremani M, Pinzauti F, Powers JD, Governali S, Narayanan T, Stienen GJM, Reconditi M, Linari M, Lombardi V, Piazzesi G. Inotropic interventions do not change the resting state of myosin motors during cardiac diastole. J Gen Physiol 2018; 151:53-65. [PMID: 30510036 PMCID: PMC6314382 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201812196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2018] [Accepted: 10/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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When striated (skeletal and cardiac) muscle is in its relaxed state, myosin motors are packed in helical tracks on the surface of the thick filament, folded toward the center of the sarcomere, and unable to bind actin or hydrolyze ATP (OFF state). This raises the question of whatthe mechanism is that integrates the Ca2+-dependent thin filament activation, making myosin heads available for interaction with actin. Here we test the interdependency of the thin and thick filament regulatory mechanisms in intact trabeculae from the rat heart. We record the x-ray diffraction signals that mark the state of the thick filament during inotropic interventions (increase in sarcomere length from 1.95 to 2.25 µm and addition of 10-7 M isoprenaline), which potentiate the twitch force developed by an electrically paced trabecula by up to twofold. During diastole, none of the signals related to the OFF state of the thick filament are significantly affected by these interventions, except the intensity of both myosin-binding protein C- and troponin-related meridional reflections, which reduce by 20% in the presence of isoprenaline. These results indicate that recruitment of myosin motors from their OFF state occurs independently and downstream from thin filament activation. This is in agreement with the recently discovered mechanism based on thick filament mechanosensing in which the number of motors available for interaction with actin rapidly adapts to the stress on the thick filament and thus to the loading conditions of the contraction. The gain of this positive feedback may be modulated by both sarcomere length and the degree of phosphorylation of myosin-binding protein C.
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- Department of Physiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
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Pinzauti F, Pertici I, Reconditi M, Narayanan T, Stienen GJM, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Linari M, Caremani M. The force and stiffness of myosin motors in the isometric twitch of a cardiac trabecula and the effect of the extracellular calcium concentration. J Physiol 2018; 596:2581-2596. [PMID: 29714038 PMCID: PMC6023834 DOI: 10.1113/jp275579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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KEY POINTS Fast sarcomere-level mechanics in intact trabeculae, which allows the definition of the mechano-kinetic properties of cardiac myosin in situ, is a fundamental tool not only for understanding the molecular mechanisms of heart performance and regulation, but also for investigating the mechanisms of the cardiomyopathy-causing mutations in the myosin and testing small molecules for therapeutic interventions. The approach has been applied to measure the stiffness and force of the myosin motor and the fraction of motors attached during isometric twitches of electrically paced trabeculae under different extracellular Ca2+ concentrations. Although the average force of the cardiac myosin motor (∼6 pN) is similar to that of the fast myosin isoform of skeletal muscle, the stiffness (1.07 pN nm-1 ) is 2- to 3-fold smaller. The increase in the twitch force developed in the presence of larger extracellular Ca2+ concentrations is fully accounted for by a proportional increase in the number of attached motors. ABSTRACT The mechano-kinetic properties of the cardiac myosin were studied in situ, in trabeculae dissected from the right ventricle of the rat heart, by measuring the stiffness of the half-sarcomere both at the twitch force peak (Tp ) of an electrically paced intact trabecula at different extracellular Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+ ]o ), and in the same trabecula after skinning and induction of rigor. Taking into account the contribution of filament compliance to half-sarcomere compliance and the lattice geometry, we found that the stiffness of the cardiac myosin motor is 1.07 ± 0.09 pN nm-1 , which is slightly larger than that of the slow myosin isoform of skeletal muscle (0.6-0.8 pN nm-1 ) and 2- to 3-fold smaller than that of the fast skeletal muscle isoform. The increase in Tp from 61 ± 4 kPa to 93 ± 9 kPa, induced by raising [Ca2+ ]o from 1 to 2.5 mm at sarcomere length ∼2.2 μm, is accompanied by an increase of the half-sarcomere stiffness that is explained by an increase of the fraction of actin-attached motors from 0.08 ± 0.01 to 0.12 ± 0.02, proportional to Tp . Consequently, each myosin motor bears an average force of 6.14 ± 0.52 pN independently of Tp and [Ca2+ ]o . The application of fast sarcomere-level mechanics to intact trabeculae to define the mechano-kinetic properties of the cardiac myosin in situ represents a powerful tool for investigating cardiomyopathy-causing mutations in the myosin motor and testing specific therapeutic interventions.
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- Department of PhysiologyVU University Medical CenterAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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Piazzesi G, Caremani M, Linari M, Reconditi M, Lombardi V. Thick Filament Mechano-Sensing in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscles: A Common Mechanism Able to Adapt the Energetic Cost of the Contraction to the Task. Front Physiol 2018; 9:736. [PMID: 29962967 PMCID: PMC6010558 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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A dual regulation of contraction operates in both skeletal and cardiac muscles. The first mechanism, based on Ca2+-dependent structural changes of the regulatory proteins in the thin filament, makes the actin sites available for binding of the myosin motors. The second recruits the myosin heads from the OFF state, in which they are unable to split ATP and bind to actin, in relation to the force during contraction. Comparison of the relevant X-ray diffraction signals marking the state of the thick filament demonstrates that the force feedback that controls the regulatory state of the thick filament works in the same way in skeletal as in cardiac muscles: even if in an isometric tetanus of skeletal muscle force is under the control of the firing frequency of the motor unit, while in a heartbeat force is controlled by the afterload, the stress-sensor switching the motors ON plays the same role in adapting the energetic cost of the contraction to the force. A new aspect of the Frank-Starling law of the heart emerges: independent of the diastolic filling of the ventricle, the number of myosin motors switched ON during systole, and thus the energetic cost of contraction, are tuned to the arterial pressure. Deterioration of the thick-filament regulation mechanism may explain the hyper-contractility related to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an inherited heart disease that in 40% of cases is due to mutations in cardiac myosin.
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- PhysioLab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Caremani M, Gallart C, Percario V, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Linari M. An In-Situ Study of the Modulation of the Mechano-Kinetic Parameters of the Slow Isoform of Muscle Myosin II by the Heart Drug Omecamtiv Mecarbil. Biophys J 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.11.3477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Lombardi V, Pinzauti F, Caremani M, Powers J, Governali S, Reconditi M, Narayanan T, Stienen GJ, Linari M, Piazzesi G. The Off State of the Thick Filament of Cardiac Muscle is Not Affected by Inotropic Interventions Like the Increase in Diastolic Sarcomere Length or the Addition of a Beta-Adrenergic Effector. Biophys J 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.11.1770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Caremani M, Pinzauti F, Reconditi M, Piazzesi G, Stienen GJM, Lombardi V, Linari M. Size and speed of the working stroke of cardiac myosin in situ. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:3675-80. [PMID: 26984499 PMCID: PMC4822625 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525057113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The power in the myocardium sarcomere is generated by two bipolar arrays of the motor protein cardiac myosin II extending from the thick filament and pulling the thin, actin-containing filaments from the opposite sides of the sarcomere. Despite the interest in the definition of myosin-based cardiomyopathies, no study has yet been able to determine the mechanokinetic properties of this motor protein in situ. Sarcomere-level mechanics recorded by a striation follower is used in electrically stimulated intact ventricular trabeculae from the rat heart to determine the isotonic velocity transient following a stepwise reduction in force from the isometric peak force TP to a value T(0.8-0.2 TP). The size and the speed of the early rapid shortening (the isotonic working stroke) increase by reducing T from ∼3 nm per half-sarcomere (hs) and 1,000 s(-1) at high load to ∼8 nm⋅hs(-1) and 6,000 s(-1) at low load. Increases in sarcomere length (1.9-2.2 μm) and external [Ca(2+)]o (1-2.5 mM), which produce an increase of TP, do not affect the dependence on T, normalized for TP, of the size and speed of the working stroke. Thus, length- and Ca(2+)-dependent increase of TP and power in the heart can solely be explained by modulation of the number of myosin motors, an emergent property of their array arrangement. The motor working stroke is similar to that of skeletal muscle myosin, whereas its speed is about three times slower. A new powerful tool for investigations and therapies of myosin-based cardiomyopathies is now within our reach.
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- Marco Caremani
- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, Università di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, Università di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, Università di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, Università di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research, VU University Medical Center, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, VU University, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, Università di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy;
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- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Biology, Università di Firenze, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
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Reconditi M, Brunello E, Caremani M, Fusi L, Linari M, Narayanan T, Piazzesi G, Irving M, Lombardi V. Stress-Sensing Mobilizes Myosin Motors in the Thick Filaments of Resting Muscle. Biophys J 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.11.131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Caremani M, Pinzauti F, Reconditi M, Piazzesi Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Stienen GJ, Linari M. The Load Dependence of the Size and the Speed of the Working Stroke of Cardiac Myosin in Situ. Biophys J 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.11.699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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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: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [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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Brunello E, Caremani M, Melli L, Linari M, Fernandez-Martinez M, Narayanan T, Irving M, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Reconditi M. The contributions of filaments and cross-bridges to sarcomere compliance in skeletal muscle. J Physiol 2014; 592:3881-99. [PMID: 25015916 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.276196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Force generation in the muscle sarcomere is driven by the head domain of the myosin molecule extending from the thick filament to form cross-bridges with the actin-containing thin filament. Following attachment, a structural working stroke in the head pulls the thin filament towards the centre of the sarcomere, producing, under unloaded conditions, a filament sliding of ∼ 11 nm. The mechanism of force generation by the myosin head depends on the relationship between cross-bridge force and movement, which is determined by compliances of the cross-bridge (C(cb)) and filaments. By measuring the force dependence of the spacing of the high-order myosin- and actin-based X-ray reflections from sartorius muscles of Rana esculenta we find a combined filament compliance (Cf) of 13.1 ± 1.2 nm MPa(-1), close to recent estimates from single fibre mechanics (12.8 ± 0.5 nm MPa(-1)). C(cb) calculated using these estimates is 0.37 ± 0.12 nm pN(-1), a value fully accounted for by the compliance of the myosin head domain, 0.38 ± 0.06 nm pN(-1), obtained from the intensity changes of the 14.5 nm myosin-based X-ray reflection in response to 3 kHz oscillations imposed on single muscle fibres in rigor. Thus, a significant contribution to C(cb) from the myosin tail that joins the head to the thick filament is excluded. The low C(cb) value indicates that the myosin head generates isometric force by a small sub-step of the 11 nm stroke that drives filament sliding at low load. The implications of these results for the mechanism of force generation by myosins have general relevance for cardiac and non-muscle myosins as well as for skeletal muscle.
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- Elisabetta Brunello
- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Randall Division, King's College London, London, SE1 1UL, UK
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- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, UdR Firenze, Italy
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Brunello E, Caremani M, Fusi L, Reconditi M, Linari M, Narayanan T, Piazzesi G, Irving M, Lombardi V. The Effect of Interfilament Spacing on Thick Filament Structure and Calcium Activation in Skeletal Muscle. Biophys J 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.2571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Mártonfalvi Z, Bianco P, Linari M, Caremani M, Nagy A, Lombardi V, Kellermayer M. Low-force transitions in single titin molecules reflect a memory of contractile history. J Cell Sci 2013; 127:858-70. [PMID: 24357719 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.138461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Titin is a giant elastomeric muscle protein that has been suggested to function as a sensor of sarcomeric stress and strain, but the mechanisms by which it does so are unresolved. To gain insight into its mechanosensory function we manipulated single titin molecules with high-resolution optical tweezers. Discrete, step-wise transitions, with rates faster than canonical Ig domain unfolding occurred during stretch at forces as low as 5 pN. Multiple mechanisms and molecular regions (PEVK, proximal tandem-Ig, N2A) are likely to be involved. The pattern of transitions is sensitive to the history of contractile events. Monte-Carlo simulations of our experimental results predicted that structural transitions begin before the complete extension of the PEVK domain. High-resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM) supported this prediction. Addition of glutamate-rich PEVK domain fragments competitively inhibited the viscoelastic response in both single titin molecules and muscle fibers, indicating that PEVK domain interactions contribute significantly to sarcomere mechanics. Thus, under non-equilibrium conditions across the physiological force range, titin extends by a complex pattern of history-dependent discrete conformational transitions, which, by dynamically exposing ligand-binding sites, could set the stage for the biochemical sensing of the mechanical status of the sarcomere.
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- Zsolt Mártonfalvi
- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Tűzoltó u. 37-47, Budapest, H1094 Hungary
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Reconditi M, Brunello E, Fusi L, Linari M, Martinez MF, Lombardi V, Irving M, Piazzesi G. Sarcomere-length dependence of myosin filament structure in skeletal muscle fibres of the frog. J Physiol 2013; 592:1119-37. [PMID: 24344169 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.267849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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X-ray diffraction patterns were recorded at beamline ID02 of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility from small bundles of skeletal muscle fibres from Rana esculenta at sarcomere lengths between 2.1 and 3.5 μm at 4°C. The intensities of the X-ray reflections from resting fibres associated with the quasi-helical order of the myosin heads and myosin binding protein C (MyBP-C) decreased in the sarcomere length range 2.6-3.0 μm but were constant outside it, suggesting that an OFF conformation of the thick filament is maintained by an interaction between MyBP-C and the thin filaments. During active isometric contraction the intensity of the M3 reflection from the regular repeat of the myosin heads along the filaments decreased in proportion to the overlap between thick and thin filaments, with no change in its interference fine structure. Thus, myosin heads in the regions of the thick filaments that do not overlap with thin filaments are highly disordered during isometric contraction, in contrast to their quasi-helical order at rest. Heads in the overlap region that belong to two-headed myosin molecules that are fully detached from actin are also highly disordered, in contrast to the detached partners of actin-attached heads. These results provide strong support for the concept of a regulatory structural transition in the thick filament involving changes in both the organisation of the myosin heads on its surface and the axial periodicity of the myosin tails in its backbone, mediated by an interaction between MyBP-C and the thin filaments.
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- Massimo Reconditi
- Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, UK.
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Caremani M, Melli L, Dolfi M, Lombardi V, Linari M. The working stroke of the myosin II motor in muscle is not tightly coupled to release of orthophosphate from its active site. J Physiol 2013; 591:5187-205. [PMID: 23878374 PMCID: PMC3810818 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.257410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2013] [Accepted: 07/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Skeletal muscle shortens faster against a lower load. This force-velocity relationship is the fundamental determinant of muscle performance in vivo and is due to ATP-driven working strokes of myosin II motors, during their cyclic interactions with the actin filament in each half-sarcomere. Crystallographic studies suggest that the working stroke is associated with the release of phosphate (Pi) and consists of 70 deg tilting of a light-chain domain that connects the catalytic domain of the myosin motor to the myosin tail and filament. However, the coupling of the working stroke with Pi release is still an unsolved question. Using nanometre-microsecond mechanics on skinned muscle fibres, we impose stepwise drops in force on an otherwise isometric contraction and record the isotonic velocity transient, to measure the mechanical manifestation of the working stroke of myosin motors and the rate of its regeneration in relation to the half-sarcomere load and [Pi]. We show that the rate constant of the working stroke is unaffected by [Pi], while the subsequent transition to steady velocity shortening is accelerated. We propose a new chemo-mechanical model that reproduces the transient and steady state responses by assuming that: (i) the release of Pi from the catalytic site of a myosin motor can occur at any stage of the working stroke, and (ii) a myosin motor, in an intermediate state of the working stroke, can slip to the next actin monomer during filament sliding. This model explains the efficient action of muscle molecular motors working as an ensemble in the half-sarcomere.
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- Marco Caremani
- V. Lombardi: Department of Biology, University of Florence, Via G. Sansone, 1; 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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Park-Holohan S, Linari M, Reconditi M, Fusi L, Brunello E, Irving M, Dolfi M, Lombardi V, West TG, Curtin NA, Woledge RC, Piazzesi G. Mechanics of myosin function in white muscle fibres of the dogfish, Scyliorhinus canicula. J Physiol 2012; 590:1973-88. [PMID: 22310308 PMCID: PMC3491701 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.217133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The contractile properties of muscle fibres have been extensively investigated by fast perturbation in sarcomere length to define the mechanical characteristics of myofilaments and myosin heads that underpin refined models of the acto-myosin cycle. Comparison of published data from intact fast-twitch fibres of frog muscle and demembranated fibres from fast muscle of rabbit shows that stiffness of the rabbit myosin head is only ∼62% of that in frog. To clarify if and how much the mechanical characteristics of the filaments and myosin heads vary in muscles of different animals we apply the same high resolution mechanical methods, in combination with X-ray diffraction, to fast-twitch fibres from the dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula). The values of equivalent filament compliance (Cf) measured by X-ray diffraction and in mechanical experiments are not significantly different; the best estimate from combining these values is 17.1 ± 1.0 nm MPa−1. This value is larger than Cf in frog, 13.0 ± 0.4 nm MPa−1. The longer thin filaments in dogfish account for only part of this difference. The average isometric force exerted by each attached myosin head at 5°C, 4.5 pN, and the maximum sliding distance accounted for by the myosin working stroke, 11 nm, are similar to those in frog, while the average myosin head stiffness of dogfish (1.98 ± 0.31 pN nm−1) is smaller than that of frog (2.78 ± 0.30 pN nm−1). Taken together these results indicate that the working stroke responsible for the generation of isometric force is a larger fraction of the total myosin head working stroke in the dogfish than in the frog.
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- S Park-Holohan
- Molecular Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Caramani M, Melli L, Dolfi M, Lombardi V, Linari M. Half-Sarcomere Mechanics and Energetics Indicate that Myosin Motors Slip Between Two Consecutive Actin Monomers during their Working Stroke. Biophys J 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.11.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022] Open
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Brunello E, Caremani M, Reconditi M, Linari M, Dolfi M, Fernandez Martinez M, Narayanan T, Piazzesi G, Irving M, Lombardi V. The Low Angle X-Ray Diffraction Pattern from Skinned Fibers of Rabbit Psoas Muscle: Effect of Changes in [Ca++] and [Orthophosphate]. Biophys J 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.11.804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022] Open
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Trapani L, Melli L, Segatto M, Trezza V, Campolongo P, Jozwiak A, Swiezewska E, Pucillo LP, Moreno S, Fanelli F, Linari M, Pallottini V. Effects of myosin heavy chain (MHC) plasticity induced by HMGCoA-reductase inhibition on skeletal muscle functions. FASEB J 2011; 25:4037-47. [PMID: 21798954 DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-184218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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The rate-limiting step of cholesterol biosynthetic pathway is catalyzed by 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme reductase (HGMR), whose inhibitors, the statins, widely used in clinical practice to treat hypercholesterolemia, often cause myopathy, and rarely rhabdomyolysis. All studies to date are limited to the definition of statin-induced myotoxicity omitting to investigate whether and how HMGR inhibition influences muscle functions. To this end, 3-mo-old male rats (Rattus norvegicus) were treated for 3 wk with a daily intraperitoneal injection of simvastatin (1.5 mg/kg/d), and biochemical, morphological, mechanical, and functional analysis were performed on extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle. Our results show that EDL muscles from simvastatin-treated rats exhibited reduced HMGR activity; a 15% shift from the fastest myosin heavy-chain (MHC) isoform IIb to the slower IIa/x; and reduced power output and unloaded shortening velocity, by 41 and 23%, respectively, without any change in isometric force and endurance. Moreover, simvastatin-treated rats showed a decrease of maximum speed reached and the latency to fall off the rotaroad (∼-30%). These results indicate that the molecular mechanism of the impaired muscle function following statin treatment could be related to the plasticity of fast MHC isoform expression.
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- Laura Trapani
- Department of Biology, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
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Caremani M, Lehman S, Lombardi V, Linari M. Orthovanadate and orthophosphate inhibit muscle force via two different pathways of the myosin ATPase cycle. Biophys J 2011; 100:665-674. [PMID: 21281581 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.12.3723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2010] [Revised: 12/09/2010] [Accepted: 12/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Measurements of the half-sarcomere stiffness during activation of skinned fibers from rabbit psoas (sarcomere length 2.5 μm, temperature 12°C) indicate that addition of 0.1 mM orthovanadate (Vi) to the solution produces a drop to ∼1/2 in number of force-generating myosin motors, proportional to the drop in steady isometric force (T(0)), an effect similar to that produced by the addition of 10 mM phosphate (Pi). However, in contrast to Pi, Vi does not change the rate of isometric force development. The depression of T(0) in a series of activations in presence of Vi is consistent with an apparent second-order rate constant of ∼1 × 10(3) M(-1) s(-1). The rate constant of T(0) recovery in a series of activations after removal of Vi is 3.5 × 10(-2) s(-1). These results, together with the finding in the literature that the ATPase rate is reduced by Vi in proportion to isometric force, are reproduced with a kinetic model of the acto-myosin cross-bridge cycle where binding of Vi to the force-generating actomyosin-ADP state induces detachment from actin to form a stable myosin-ADP-Vi complex that is not able to complete the hydrolysis cycle and reenters the cycle only via reattachment to actin upon activation in Vi-free solution.
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- Marco Caremani
- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California
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- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy.
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Caremani M, Reconditi M, Brunello E, Linari M, Gore D, Irving T, Piazzesi G, Irving M, Lombardi V. X-Ray Diffraction Study of the Effect of Temperature on the Structure of Mammalian Muscle at Rest and During Isometric Contraction. Biophys J 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.12.1905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Reconditi M, Linari M, Piazzesi G, Irving M, Lombardi V. A Reinvestigation of the Source of Compliance of Muscle Cross-Bridges. Biophys J 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.12.3377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Linari M, Caremani M, Lombardi V. A kinetic model that explains the effect of inorganic phosphate on the mechanics and energetics of isometric contraction of fast skeletal muscle. Proc Biol Sci 2010; 277:19-27. [PMID: 19812088 PMCID: PMC2842631 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2009] [Accepted: 09/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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A conventional five-step chemo-mechanical cycle of the myosin-actin ATPase reaction, which implies myosin detachment from actin upon release of hydrolysis products (ADP and phosphate, Pi) and binding of a new ATP molecule, is able to fit the [Pi] dependence of the force and number of myosin motors during isometric contraction of skeletal muscle. However, this scheme is not able to explain why the isometric ATPase rate of fast skeletal muscle is decreased by an increase in [Pi] much less than the number of motors. The question can be solved assuming the presence of a branch in the cycle: in isometric contraction, when the force generation process by the myosin motor is biased at the start of the working stroke, the motor can detach at an early stage of the ATPase cycle, with Pi still bound to its catalytic site, and then rapidly release the hydrolysis products and bind another ATP. In this way, the model predicts that in fast skeletal muscle the energetic cost of isometric contraction increases with [Pi]. The large dissociation constant of the product release in the branched pathway allows the isometric myosin-actin reaction to fit the equilibrium constant of the ATPase.
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- Marco Linari
- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica, Università di Firenze, Italy
- CNISM, Università di Firenze, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica, Università di Firenze, Italy
- CNISM, Università di Firenze, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica, Università di Firenze, Italy
- CRS SOFT-INFM-CNR, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Italy
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Bang ML, Caremani M, Brunello E, Littlefield R, Lieber RL, Chen J, Lombardi V, Linari M. Nebulin plays a direct role in promoting strong actin-myosin interactions. FASEB J 2009; 23:4117-25. [PMID: 19679637 PMCID: PMC2812046 DOI: 10.1096/fj.09-137729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2009] [Accepted: 07/16/2009] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The role of the actin filament-associated protein nebulin on mechanical and kinetic properties of the actomyosin motor was investigated in skeletal muscle of wild-type (wt) and nebulin-deficient (nebulin(-)(/)(-)) mice that were 1 d old, an age at which sarcomeric structure is still well preserved. In Ca2+-activated skinned fibers from psoas muscle, we determined the Ca2+ dependence of isometric force and stiffness, the rate of force redevelopment after unloaded shortening (k(TR)), the power during isotonic shortening, and the unloaded shortening velocity (V(0)). Our results show a 65% reduction in isometric force in nebulin(-)(/)(-) fibers at saturating [Ca2+], whereas neither thin-filament length nor the Ca2+ sensitivity of the contractile system is affected. Stiffness measurements indicate that the reduction in isometric force is due to a reduction in the number of actin-attached myosin motors, whereas the force of the motor is unchanged. Furthermore, in nebulin(-)(/)(-) fibers, k(TR) is decreased by 57%, V(0) is increased by 63%, and the maximum power is decreased by 80%. These results indicate that, in the absence of nebulin, the attachment probability of the myosin motors to actin is decreased, revealing a direct role for nebulin in promoting strong actomyosin interactions responsible for force and power production.
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- Marie-Louise Bang
- Istituto Tecnologie Biomediche-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ITB-CNR), Via Fratelli Cervi 93, 20090 Segrate, Milan, Italy.
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Fusi L, Reconditi M, Linari M, Brunello E, Elangovan R, Lombardi V, Piazzesi G. The mechanism of the resistance to stretch of isometrically contracting single muscle fibres. J Physiol 2009; 588:495-510. [PMID: 19948653 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.178137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Rapid attachment to actin of the detached motor domain of myosin dimers with one motor domain already attached has been hypothesized to explain the stretch-induced changes in X-ray interference and stiffness of active muscle. Here, using half-sarcomere mechanics in single frog muscle fibres (2.15 microm sarcomere length and 4 degrees C), we show that: (1) an increase in stiffness of the half-sarcomere under stretch is specific to isometric contraction and does not occur in rigor, indicating that the mechanism of stiffness increase is an increase in the number of attached motors; (2) 2 ms after 100 micros stretches (amplitude 2-8 nm per half-sarcomere) imposed during an isometric tetanus, the stiffness of the array of myosin motors in each half-sarcomere (e(m)) increases above the isometric value (e(m0)); (3) e(m) has a sigmoidal dependence on the distortion of the motor domains (Delta z) attached in isometric contraction, with a maximum approximately 2 e(m0) for a distortion of approximately 6 nm; e(m) is influenced by detachment of motors at z > 6 nm; (4) at the end of the 100 micros stretch the relation between e(m)/e(m0) and Delta z lies slightly but not significantly above that at 2 ms. These results support the idea that stretch-induced sliding of the actin filament distorts the actin-attached motor domain of the myosin dimers away from the centre of the sarcomere, providing the steric conditions for rapid attachment of the second motor domain. The rate of new motor attachment must be as high as 7.5 x 10(4) s(1) and explains the rapid and efficient increase of the resistance of active muscle to stretch.
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- Luca Fusi
- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Brunello E, Fusi L, Reconditi M, Linari M, Bianco P, Panine P, Narayanan T, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Irving M. Structural changes in myosin motors and filaments during relaxation of skeletal muscle. J Physiol 2009; 587:4509-21. [PMID: 19651765 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.176222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Structural changes in myosin motors and filaments during relaxation from short tetanic contractions of intact single fibres of frog tibialis anterior muscles at sarcomere length 2.14 mum, 4 degrees C were investigated by X-ray diffraction. Force declined at a steady rate for several hundred milliseconds after the last stimulus, while sarcomere lengths remained almost constant. During this isometric phase of relaxation the intensities of the equatorial and meridional M3 X-ray reflections associated with the radial and axial distributions of myosin motors also recovered at a steady rate towards their resting values, consistent with progressive net detachment of myosin motors from actin filaments. Stiffness measurements confirmed that the fraction of motors attached to actin declined at a constant rate, but also revealed a progressive increase in force per motor. The interference fine structure of the M3 reflection suggested that actin-attached myosin motors are displaced towards the start of their working stroke during isometric relaxation. There was negligible recovery of the intensities of the meridional and layer-line reflections associated with the quasi-helical distribution of myosin motors in resting muscle during isometric relaxation, and the 1.5% increase in the axial periodicity of the myosin filament associated with muscle activation was not reversed. When force had decreased to roughly half its tetanus plateau value, the isometric phase of relaxation abruptly ended, and the ensuing chaotic relaxation had an exponential half-time of ca 60 ms. Recovery of the equatorial X-ray intensities was largely complete during chaotic relaxation, but the other X-ray signals recovered more slowly than force.
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- E Brunello
- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica, Universitá di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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Linari M, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V. The effect of myofilament compliance on kinetics of force generation by myosin motors in muscle. Biophys J 2009; 96:583-92. [PMID: 19167306 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.09.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2008] [Accepted: 09/29/2008] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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We use the inhibitor of isometric force of skeletal muscle N-benzyl-p-toluene sulfonamide (BTS) to decrease, in a dose dependent way, the number of myosin motors attached to actin during the steady isometric contraction of single fibers from frog skeletal muscle (4 degrees C, 2.1 microm sarcomere length). In this way we can reduce the strain in the myofilament compliance during the isometric tetanus (T(0)) from 3.54 nm in the control solution (T(0,NR)) to approximately 0.5 nm in 1 microM BTS, where T(0) is reduced to approximately 0.15 T(0,NR). The quick force recovery after a step release (1-3 nm per half-sarcomere) becomes faster with the increase of BTS concentration and the decrease of T(0). The simulation of quick force recovery with a multistate model of force generation, that adapts Huxley and Simmons model to account for both the high stiffness of the myosin motor (approximately 3 pN/nm) and the myofilament compliance, shows that the increase in the rate of quick force recovery by BTS is explained by the reduced strain in the myofilaments, consequent to the decrease in half-sarcomere force. The model estimates that i), for the same half-sarcomere release the state transition kinetics in the myosin motor are five times faster in the absence of filament compliance than in the control; and ii), the rate of force recovery from zero to T(0) is approximately 6000/s in the absence of filament compliance.
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- M Linari
- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica, Università di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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Brunello E, Reconditi M, Linari M, Bianco P, Narayanan T, Panine P, Piazzesi G, Lombardi V, Irving M. Structural Changes in the Myosin Motors During Activation of Skeletal Muscle. Biophys J 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.12.1874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Caremani M, Lehman S, Lombardi V, Linari M. Orthovanadate Slows Kinetics Of The Acto-Myosin Interaction In Skinned Muscle Fibers By Competition Between Myosin-ADP-Pi and Myosin-ADP-Vi Cross-Bridges For Actin Sites. Biophys J 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.12.2552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Piazzesi G, Reconditi M, Linari M, Lucii L, Bianco P, Brunello E, Decostre V, Stewart A, Gore DB, Irving TC, Irving M, Lombardi V. Skeletal muscle performance determined by modulation of number of myosin motors rather than motor force or stroke size. Cell 2008; 131:784-95. [PMID: 18022371 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2007.09.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2007] [Revised: 06/08/2007] [Accepted: 09/27/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Skeletal muscle can bear a high load at constant length, or shorten rapidly when the load is low. This force-velocity relationship is the primary determinant of muscle performance in vivo. Here we exploited the quasi-crystalline order of myosin II motors in muscle filaments to determine the molecular basis of this relationship by X-ray interference and mechanical measurements on intact single cells. We found that, during muscle shortening at a wide range of velocities, individual myosin motors maintain a force of about 6 pN while pulling an actin filament through a 6 nm stroke, then quickly detach when the motor reaches a critical conformation. Thus we show that the force-velocity relationship is primarily a result of a reduction in the number of motors attached to actin in each filament in proportion to the filament load. These results explain muscle performance and efficiency in terms of the molecular mechanism of the myosin motor.
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- Gabriella Piazzesi
- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Linari M, Caremani M, Piperio C, Brandt P, Lombardi V. Stiffness and fraction of Myosin motors responsible for active force in permeabilized muscle fibers from rabbit psoas. Biophys J 2007; 92:2476-90. [PMID: 17237201 PMCID: PMC1864836 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.099549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The stiffness of the single myosin motor (epsilon) is determined in skinned fibers from rabbit psoas muscle by both mechanical and thermodynamic approaches. Changes in the elastic strain of the half-sarcomere (hs) are measured by fast mechanics both in rigor, when all myosin heads are attached, and during active contraction, with the isometric force (T0) modulated by changing either [Ca2+] or temperature. The hs compliance is 43.0+/-0.8 nm MPa-1 in isometric contraction at saturating [Ca2+], whereas in rigor it is 28.2+/-1.1 nm MPa-1. The equivalent compliance of myofilaments is 21.0+/-3.3 nm MPa-1. Accordingly, the stiffness of the ensemble of myosin heads attached in the hs is 45.5+/-1.7 kPa nm-1 in isometric contraction at saturating [Ca2+] (e0), and in rigor (er) it rises to 138.9+/-21.2 kPa nm-1. Epsilon, calculated from er and the lattice molecular dimensions, is 1.21+/-0.18 pN nm-1. epsilon estimated, using a thermodynamic approach, from the relation of T0 at saturating [Ca2+] versus the reciprocal of absolute temperature is 1.25+/-0.14 pN nm-1, similar to that estimated for fibers in rigor. Consequently, the ratio e0/er (0.33+/-0.05) can be used to estimate the fraction of attached heads during isometric contraction at saturating [Ca2+]. If the osmotic agent dextran T-500 (4 g/100 ml) is used to reduce the lateral filament spacing of the relaxed fiber to the value before skinning, both e0 and er increase by approximately 40%. Epsilon becomes approximately 1.7 pN nm-1 and the fraction and the force of myosin heads attached in the isometric contraction remain the same as before dextran application. The finding that the fraction of myosin heads attached to actin in an isometric contraction is 0.33 rules out the hypothesis of multiple mechanical cycles per ATP hydrolyzed.
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- Marco Linari
- Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
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Brunello E, Bianco P, Piazzesi G, Linari M, Reconditi M, Panine P, Narayanan T, Helsby WI, Irving M, Lombardi V. Structural changes in the myosin filament and cross-bridges during active force development in single intact frog muscle fibres: stiffness and X-ray diffraction measurements. J Physiol 2006; 577:971-84. [PMID: 16990403 PMCID: PMC1890380 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.115394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Structural and mechanical changes occurring in the myosin filament and myosin head domains during the development of the isometric tetanus have been investigated in intact frog muscle fibres at 4 degrees C and 2.15 microm sarcomere length, using sarcomere level mechanics and X-ray diffraction at beamline ID2 of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, France). The time courses of changes in both the M3 and M6 myosin-based reflections were recorded with 5 ms frames using the gas-filled RAPID detector (MicroGap Technology). Following the end of the latent period (11 ms after the start of stimulation), force increases to the tetanus plateau value (T(0)) with a half-time of 40 ms, and the spacings of the M3 and M6 reflections (S(M3) and S(M6)) increase by 1.5% from their resting values, with time courses that lead that of force by approximately 10 and approximately 20 ms, respectively. These temporal relations are maintained when the increase of force is delayed by approximately 10 ms by imposing, from 5 ms after the first stimulus, 50 nm (half-sarcomere)(-1) shortening at the velocity (V(0)) that maintains zero force. Shortening at V(0) transiently reduces S(M3) following the latent period and delays the subsequent increase in S(M3), but only delays the S(M6) increase without a transient decrease. Shortening at V(0) imposed at the tetanus plateau causes an abrupt reduction of the intensity of the M3 reflection (I(M3)), whereas the intensity of the M6 reflection (I(M6)) is only slightly reduced. The changes in half-sarcomere stiffness indicate that the isometric force at each time point is proportional to the number of myosin heads bound to actin. The different sensitivities of the intensity and spacing of the M3 and M6 reflections to the mechanical responses support the view that the M3 reflection in active muscle originates mainly from the myosin heads attached to the actin filament and the M6 reflection originates mainly from a fixed structure in the myosin filament signalling myosin filament length changes during the tetanus rise.
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- E Brunello
- Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Animal Biology and Genetics, University of Florence, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Vanzi F, Capitanio M, Sacconi L, Stringari C, Cicchi R, Canepari M, Maffei M, Piroddi N, Poggesi C, Nucciotti V, Linari M, Piazzesi G, Tesi C, Antolini R, Lombardi V, Bottinelli R, Pavone FS. New techniques in linear and non-linear laser optics in muscle research. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2006; 27:469-79. [PMID: 16933024 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-006-9084-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2006] [Accepted: 06/26/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This review proposes a brief summary of two applications of lasers to muscle research. The first application (laser tweezers), is now a well-established technique in the field, adopted by several laboratories in the world and producing a constant stream of original data, fundamental for our improved understanding of muscle contraction at the level of detail that only single molecule measurements can provide. As an example of the power of this technique, here we focus on some recent results, revealing the performance of the working stroke in at least two distinct steps also in skeletal muscle myosin. A second laser-based technique described here is second-harmonic generation; the application of this technique to muscle research is very recent. We describe the main results obtained thus far in this area and the potentially remarkable impact that this technology may have in muscle research.
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- F Vanzi
- LENS (European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy), University of Florence, Via Nello Carrara 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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Cucchiaro A, Bianchi A, Coppi B, Crescenzi C, Linari M, Lucca F, Marin A, Mazzone G, Parodi B, Pizzuto A, Ramogida G, Roccella M, Sanguinetti G. Ignitor plasma chamber structural design with dynamic loads due to plasma disruption event. Fusion Engineering and Design 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2005.08.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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