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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 272, Issue 6 1980-R1984, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Increased force development rates of fatigued mouse skeletal muscle are graded to myosin light chain phosphate content

R. Vandenboom, J. Xeni, N. M. Bestic and M. E. Houston
Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chain (R-LC) increases the Ca2+ sensitivity of cross-bridge transitions, which determine rate of force development in skinned skeletal muscle fibers. The purpose of this study was to determine whether phosphorylation of R-LC is the molecular basis for the increased force development rates (+dF/dtmax) observed in fatigued mouse extensor digitorum longus muscle (EDL) (stimulated in vitro at 25 degrees C). Parameters of twitch and tetanic force were obtained after the application of different-frequency conditioning stimuli (CS), which were used to vary R-LC phosphorylation and reduce peak tetanic force (Po). Without CS, R-LC phosphorylation (in moles phosphate per mole R-LC) was not elevated above rest (0.11 +/- 0.02 vs. 0.13 +/- 0.02, respectively), and no aspect of the twitch (Pt) Po was altered. Stimulating muscles at 2.5-20 Hz increased R-LC phosphorylation in a frequency-dependent manner, from 0.23 +/- 0.04 to 0.82 +/- 0.03, respectively. Moreover, stimulation at 2.5-20 Hz potentiated Pt (range: 4 +/- 2-28 +/- 2%), increased the +dF/dtmax of potentiated twitches (range: 5 +/- 1-28 +/- 2%), and reduced Po (range: 6 +/- 1-21 +/- 1%). Higher-frequency stimulation (40 or 100 Hz) did not phosphorylate R-LC or potentiate Pt or twitch +dF/dtmax further. Stimulation at 40 and 100 Hz did, however, have different effects on Po compared with 20-Hz data (Po reduced 27 +/- 2 and 11 +/- 2%, respectively). The increased +dF/dtmax of potentiated twitches observed after different CS procedures were graded to R-LC phosphorylation (r = 0.97, P < 0.001). It is concluded that phosphorylation of R-LC increases extent of twitch force development in mouse EDL muscle fatigued by CS.


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