title: A mechanistic model of Ca regulation of thin filaments in cardiac muscle.
abstract: We present a model of Ca-regulated thin filaments in cardiac muscle where tropomyosin is treated as a continuous elastic chain confined in the closed position on the actin helix by electrostatic forces. The main distinction from previous works is that the intrinsic stress-free helical shape of the tropomyosin chain was taken into account explicitly. This results in the appearance of a new, to our knowledge, tension-like term in the energy functional and the equilibrium equation. The competitive binding of calcium and the mobile segment of troponin-I to troponin-C were described by a simple kinetic scheme. The values of dimensionless model parameters were estimated from published data. A stochastic Monte Carlo simulation of calcium curves has been performed and its results were compared to published data. The model explains the high cooperativity of calcium response of the regulated thin filaments even in the absence of myosin heads. The binding of myosin heads to actin increases the calcium sensitivity while not affecting its cooperativity significantly. When the presence of calcium-insensitive troponin-C was simulated in the model, both calcium sensitivity and cooperativity decreased. All these features were previously observed experimentally.
authors: Institute of Mechanics, Lomonosov Moscow University, Moscow, Russia.
authors: Nadia A
authors: NA
authors: Metalnikova
authors: Andrey K
authors: AK
authors: Tsaturyan
mesh_terms: D008841:Actin Cytoskeleton / Q000378:metabolism*; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D009218:Myosins / Q000378:metabolism; D014335:Tropomyosin / Q000378:metabolism; D014336:Troponin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014335:Tropomyosin; D014336:Troponin; D009218:Myosins; D002118:Calcium
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