title: The effect of mechanical loading on the MyHC synthesis rate and composition in rat plantaris muscle.
abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the response of protein synthesis rate, particularly myosin heavy chain (MyHC) isoforms synthesis and the magnitude of its isoform transformation in fast-twitch plantaris muscle, to different modes of prolonged mechanical loading. Different protocols of mechanical loading were used: resistance training (RT), compensatory hypertrophy (CH) of m. plantaris after tenotomy of m. gastrocnemius and a combination of the two previous loadings (RT + CH). During the different modes of loading, plantaris muscle hypertrophy in RT group was approximately 10 %, CH approximately 40 % and CH + RT approximately 44 %. MyHC I and IID isoform synthesis rate increased in all experimental groups, as well as their relative content. MyHC IIA relative content decreased during RT and RT + CH and increased during CH. MHC IIB isoform relative content decreased in all experimental groups, but compared with CH in CH + RT MyHC IIB isoform content increased in plantaris muscle. These results demonstrate that different modes of mechanical loading resulted in the selective up- and down-regulation of MyHC isoforms in fast-twitch skeletal muscle. The synthesis rate and relative content of the two fastest isoforms of MyHC IIB and IID are regulated to different directions during mechanical loading.
authors.affiliation: Department of Functional Morphology, University of Tartu, Estonia. andop@ut.ee
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pehme
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alev
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kaasik
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Julkunen
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Seene
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015536:Down-Regulation; D006984:Hypertrophy; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D018995:Myosin Heavy Chains / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D015854:Up-Regulation
chemical_list: D020033:Protein Isoforms; D018995:Myosin Heavy Chains