Mechanotransduction and the regulation of protein synthesis in skeletal muscle.
Repeated bouts of resistance exercise produce an increase in skeletal muscle mass. The accumulation of protein associated with the growth process results from a net increase in protein synthesis relative to breakdown. While the effect of resistance exercise on muscle mass has long been recognized, the mechanisms underlying the link between high-resistance contractions and the regulation of protein synthesis and breakdown are, to date, poorly understood. In the present paper skeletal muscle will be viewed as a mechanosensitive cell type and the possible mechanisms through which mechanically-induced signalling events lead to changes in rates of protein synthesis will be examined.
Muscle Biology Laboratory, School of Kinesiology (m/c 194), University of Illinois, Chicago, 901 W Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608, USA.
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D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D009124:Muscle Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis / Q000502:physiology*; D014891:Weight Lifting / Q000502:physiology
D009124:Muscle Proteins