Regulatory roles of MgADP and calcium in tension development of skinned cardiac muscle.

abstract：:Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxy-tryptamine) is an effective antioxidant and free radical scavenger, that has important biological effects in multiple cell types and species. Melatonin research in muscle has recently gained attention, mainly focused on its role in cells or tissue repair and regeneration after injury, due...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Chen B,You W,Shan T

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scallop S1 has a region sensitive to tryptic hydrolysis not found thus far in S1s of other species, located 65K from the N-terminus as determined by SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. In the presence of actin the S1 heavy chain is preferentially cleaved at this site. The high-salt EDTA and calcium ATPase activiti...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Szentkiralyi EM

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nebulin is an integral protein of skeletal muscle thin filaments and probably acts as a ruler for the thin filament length. Cardiac muscles of higher vertebrates have been shown earlier to lack nebulin. Instead in human and chicken cardiac muscle the much smaller protein nebulette replaces nebulin. Since nebulette is ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Fock U,Hinssen H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because complex structural differences in adult extraocular muscles may have physiological and pathophysiological significance, the three-dimensional pattern of myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform expression within the orbital and global layers of the muscle bellies compared with the distal tendon ends was quantitatively...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： McLoon LK,Rios L,Wirtschafter JD

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADF/cofilins disassemble the actin filament and contribute to a wide range of actin dynamics. These proteins are regulated by several factors, including phosphorylation, pH and mechanical forces. Although the cofilin-decorated actin filament structure was published recently, the mechanisms of these regulating factors ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Narita A

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical illness myopathy (CIM) is associated with severe muscle atrophy and fatigue in affected patients. Apoptotic signaling is involved in atrophy and is elevated in muscles from patients with CIM. In this study we investigated underlying mechanisms of apoptosis-related pathways in muscles with different fiber type...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Barnes BT,Confides AL,Rich MM,Dupont-Versteegden EE

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the expression of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and dystrophin in the regenerating skeletal muscles of rats after cardiotoxin-induced myonecrosis by immunohistochemical studies and western blot analysis. In normal muscles, nNOS was moderately immunostained on type 2B fibers, but was faintly imm...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Hoshino S,Ohkoshi N,Ishii A,Shoji S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a substantial literature exists on the in vitro polymerization of purified myosin, little is known about native thick filament assembly, remodeling or turnover. We have recently described a cell-free system (Bouche et al., 1988) to examine the interactions between thick filaments and soluble, newly synthesize...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Goldfine SM,Einheber S,Fischman DA

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAb's) have been raised against proteins in preparations of Z-discs isolated from honeybee fibrillar flight muscle. These antibodies have identified four Z-disc antigens on immunoblots of honeybee fibrillar proteins. Antibody alpha binds to the 90-100 kD protein, alpha-actinin; mAb P interacts w...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Saide JD,Chin-Bow S,Hogan-Sheldon J,Busquets-Turner L

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-hydrolysable ATP analogue, beta,gamma-imido-adenosine-5'-triphosphate (AMPPNP, adenylilimidodiphosphate) does not reduce the stiffness of demembranated sea urchin sperm flagella measured in the rigor state in the absence of MgATP2- and does not cause relaxation of rigor bends. The competitive inhibitions provi...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Okuno M,Brokaw CJ

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-ADP exchange reaction and its related partial reactions of fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum from bullfrog skeletal muscle (frog FSR) were investigated and compared with those of rabbit FSR in order to understand the characteristics of calcium-activated ATPase (Ca2+-ATPase) of frog FSR. MgATP and magnesium-fre...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Ogawa Y,Kurebayashi N

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that the active tension of C2C12 myotubes that had been subjected to artificial exercise for ~10 days decreased rapidly after termination of the artificial exercise. When differentiated C2C12 myotubes were subjected to continuous 1 Hz artificial exercise for ~10 days, the active tension increased to ~4× compa...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Fujita H,Hirano M,Shimizu K,Nagamori E

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sonic muscle of the oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau, can produce unfused contractions at 300 Hz. Electron microscopy shows a great abundance of the Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in this muscle, but no functional characterization of the capabilities of the SR has been reported. We measured the oxalate-supported Ca2+ upt...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Feher JJ,Waybright TD,Fine ML

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rigor complexes between actin and myosin have been shown to cause increased binding of Ca2+ to troponin C. A similar effect of force-generating crossbridges has been suggested as an explanation for the coupling between load and activation which has been observed in skeletal and cardiac muscle. The goal of this study w...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Fuchs F

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stretchin-klp is a newly described protein in Drosophila indirect flight muscles (IFM) that migrates on SDS gels as two distinct components of approximately 225 and 231 kD. Although the larger isoform is IFM specific, the smaller stretchin-klp isoform is expressed not only in IFM, but also in wild-type tissues of the ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Patel SR,Saide JD

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the spontaneous activities of prescapular lymph nodes, which were isolated from calves, goats and sheep and mesenteric lymph nodes of guinea-pigs were recorded and analysed in the frequency domain. Stretch-evoked contractions of the mesenteric lymph nodes were also recorded and their frequency characteri...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Tümer A,Oztürk-Demir N,Basar-Eroğlu C,Noyan A

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single muscle fiber sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel-electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) is a sensitive technique for determining skeletal muscle myosin heavy chain (MHC) composition of human biopsy samples. However, the number of fibers suitable to represent fiber type distribution via this method is undefined. Muscl...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Murach KA,Bagley JR,McLeland KA,Arevalo JA,Ciccone AB,Malyszek KK,Wen Y,Galpin AJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The force-velocity (T-V) relation and the force-extension (T1) relation from single fibres isolated from the muscle tibialis anterior of the frog were determined at present times during the rise of tension and the plateau of an isometric tetanus. During the rise of an isometric tetanus the value of V0 (the velocity of...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Ambrogi-Lorenzini C,Colomo F,Lombardi V

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of the titin filament in the vicinity of the Z-line were investigated using immunoelectron microscopy. We used monoclonal titin antibodies T-11 and T-12 on single fibres of frog skeletal muscle, and on Z-line-extracted fibres. It is well established that the I-band region of titin is elastic. We fi...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Trombitás K,Pollack GH

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transducer has been developed for measuring the minute forces generated during isometric contractions (1.0-10.0 microN) of single smooth muscle cells from the pig urinary bladder and the human uterus. In addition to its high sensitivity, resolution and stability (100 mV microN-1, and less than 0.1 microN and less th...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Glerum JJ,Van Mastrigt R

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mRNA levels of the adult and the neonatal sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPases (SERCA1a and SERCA1b, respectively) and those of the muscle regulatory factors (MRFs: myoD, myf-5, myogenin, MRF4) have been assessed by RT PCR in rat soleus muscles immobilized for 3 days in an extended position (passive s...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Zádor E,Dux L,Wuytack F

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the temperature dependence of active force in lengthening and shortening muscle. Experiments were done, in vitro, on bundles of intact fibres (fibre length L(0) ~2 mm; sarcomere length ~2.5 μm) isolated from a rat fast muscle (flexor hallucis brevis) and a ramp length change...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Roots H,Pinniger GJ,Offer GW,Ranatunga KW

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle tissue is mechanosensitive, as it is able to sense mechanical impacts and to translate these into biochemical signals making the tissue adapt. Among its mechanosensitive nature, skeletal muscle tissue is the largest metabolic organ of the human body. Disturbances in skeletal muscle mechanosensing and m...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Pingel J,Suhr F

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study describes transitions in myosin heavy chain expression in the extraocular muscles of rats between the ages of E17 and adult. The unique phenotype of the extraocular muscle is reflected in its fibre type composition, which is comprised by six distinct profiles, each defined by location (orbital versus...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Brueckner JK,Itkis O,Porter JD

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanically skinned fibre preparations from the extensor digitorum longus muscle of the rat were used to test whether a rise in myoplasmic [NH+4] in the range 2-10 mM interferes with the mechanism of excitation-contraction coupling in fast-twitch mammalian muscle. Under our conditions (pH 7.10, Mg2+ 1 mM, temperature...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Stephenson GM,Stephenson DG

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaps in our understanding of muscle mechanics demonstrate that the current model is incomplete. Increasingly, it appears that a role for titin in active muscle contraction might help to fill these gaps. While such a role for titin is increasingly accepted, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. The goals ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Nishikawa K,Dutta S,DuVall M,Nelson B,Gage MJ,Monroy JA

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarcomere length (SL) dependence of the calcium sensitivity of force was measured in skinned single twitch and slow-tonic muscle fibres from frog and toad. Twitch and slow-tonic fibres were characterized by location, appearance, physiological response to calcium and by protein band patterns from sodium-dodecyl-sul...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Martyn DA,Coby R,Huntsman LL,Gordon AM

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small but statistically significant shifts (hysteresis) between the up (increasing tension direction) and down (decreasing tension) pCa/tension relation for several muscle types of the rabbit and rat were found. The largest shift is, at most, 0.093 p units or 60% of that reported for the barnacle muscle. The direction...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Brandt PW,Gluck B,Mini M,Cerri C

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified antibodies to the thick filament accessory proteins, C-protein, X-protein and H-protein, have been used to label fibres of three rabbit muscles, psoas (containing mainly fast white fibres), soleus (containing mainly slow red fibres) and plantaris (a muscle of mixed fibre type) and their location has been exam...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Bennett P,Craig R,Starr R,Offer G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomyosins (Tm) in humans are expressed from four distinct genes and by alternate splicing >40 different Tm polypeptide chains can be made. The functional Tm unit is a dimer of two parallel polypeptide chains and these can be assembled from identical (homodimer) or different (heterodimer) polypeptide chains provided...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Janco M,Suphamungmee W,Li X,Lehman W,Lehrer SS,Geeves MA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00