title: Sarcomere length-dependent Ca2+ activation in skinned rabbit psoas muscle fibers: coordinated regulation of thin filament cooperative activation and passive force.
abstract: In skeletal muscle, active force production varies as a function of sarcomere length (SL). It has been considered that this SL dependence results simply from a change in the overlap length between the thick and thin filaments. The purpose of this study was to provide a systematic understanding of the SL-dependent increase in Ca(2+) sensitivity in skeletal muscle, by investigating how thin filament "on-off" switching and passive force are involved in the regulation. Rabbit psoas muscles were skinned, and active force measurements were taken at various Ca(2+) concentrations with single fibers, in the short (2.0 and 2.4 μm) and long (2.4 and 2.8 μm) SL ranges. Despite the same magnitude of SL elongation, the SL-dependent increase in Ca(2+) sensitivity was more pronounced in the long SL range. MgADP (3 mM) increased the rate of rise of active force and attenuated SL-dependent Ca(2+) activation in both SL ranges. Conversely, inorganic phosphate (Pi, 20 mM) decreased the rate of rise of active force and enhanced SL-dependent Ca(2+) activation in both SL ranges. Our analyses revealed that, in the absence and presence of MgADP or Pi, the magnitude of SL-dependent Ca(2+) activation was (1) inversely correlated with the rate of rise of active force, and (2) in proportion to passive force. These findings suggest that the SL dependence of active force in skeletal muscle is regulated via thin filament "on-off" switching and titin (connectin)-based interfilament lattice spacing modulation in a coordinated fashion, in addition to the regulation via the filament overlap.
authors: Department of Cell Physiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. noriof@jikei.ac.jp
authors: Norio
authors: N
authors: Fukuda
authors: Takahiro
authors: T
authors: Inoue
authors: Mitsunori
authors: M
authors: Yamane
authors: Takako
authors: T
authors: Terui
authors: Fuyu
authors: F
authors: Kobirumaki
authors: Iwao
authors: I
authors: Ohtsuki
authors: Shin'ichi
authors: S
authors: Ishiwata
authors: Satoshi
authors: S
authors: Kurihara
mesh_terms: D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D010710:Phosphates / Q000494:pharmacology; D016658:Psoas Muscles / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D011817:Rabbits; D012518:Sarcomeres / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D010710:Phosphates; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate; D002118:Calcium