title: Contractility and kinetics of human fetal and human adult skeletal muscle.
abstract: Little is known about the contraction and relaxation properties of fetal skeletal muscle, and measurements thus far have been made with non-human mammalian muscle. Data on human fetal skeletal muscle contraction are lacking, and there are no published reports on the kinetics of either fetal or adult human skeletal muscle myofibrils. Understanding the contractile properties of human fetal muscle would be valuable in understanding muscle development and a variety of muscle diseases that are associated with mutations in fetal muscle sarcomere proteins. Therefore, we characterised the contractile properties of developing human fetal skeletal muscle and compared them to adult human skeletal muscle and rabbit psoas muscle. Electron micrographs showed human fetal muscle sarcomeres are not fully formed but myofibril formation is visible. Isolated myofibril mechanical measurements revealed much lower specific force, and slower rates of isometric force development, slow phase relaxation, and fast phase relaxation in human fetal when compared to human adult skeletal muscle. The duration of slow phase relaxation was also significantly longer compared to both adult groups, but was similarly affected by elevated ADP. F-actin sliding on human fetal skeletal myosin coated surfaces in in vitro motility (IVM) assays was much slower compared with adult rabbit skeletal myosin, though the Km(app) (apparent (fitted) Michaelis-Menten constant) of F-actin speed with ATP titration suggests a greater affinity of human fetal myosin for nucleotide binding. Replacing ATP with 2 deoxy-ATP (dATP) increased F-actin speed for both groups by a similar amount. Titrations of ADP into IVM assays produced a similar inhibitory affect for both groups, suggesting ADP binding may be similar, at least under low load. Together, our results suggest slower but similar mechanisms of myosin chemomechanical transduction for human fetal muscle that may also be limited by immature myofilament structure.
authors: Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors: Alice W
authors: AW
authors: Racca
authors: Anita E
authors: AE
authors: Beck
authors: Vijay S
authors: VS
authors: Rao
authors: Galina V
authors: GV
authors: Flint
authors: Scott D
authors: SD
authors: Lundy
authors: Donald E
authors: DE
authors: Born
authors: Michael J
authors: MJ
authors: Bamshad
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Regnier
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D047109:Fetal Development; D005333:Fetus / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D007537:Isometric Contraction; D007700:Kinetics; D009126:Muscle Relaxation; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000196:embryology* / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009218:Myosins / Q000378:metabolism; D011817:Rabbits; D012518:Sarcomeres / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; C510594:MYH3 polypeptide, human; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate; D009218:Myosins
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