Kinetics of tension development in skinned cardiac myocytes measured by photorelease of Ca2+

Author:

Araujo A.1,Walker J. W.1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706.

Abstract

The rate of activation of tension development by free Ca2+ was examined in skinned rat ventricular myocytes. Pulse photolysis of the photosensitive Ca2+ chelator, Nitr-7, was used to rapidly elevate Ca2+ in the vicinity of the myofilaments. Tension increased exponentially with a first-order rate constant (kCa) that depended on the level of Ca2+ activation. kCa increased approximately linearly from 0.9 +/- 0.2 s-1 at 20% maximal Ca(2+)-activated tension (Po) to 4.0 +/- 0.9 s-1 at 85% Po, representing a fourfold increase in kCa with activation. Reducing free Mg2+ from 1 to 0.1 mM accelerated kCa by about twofold at all levels of Ca2+. Tension development kinetics were significantly different in skinned rabbit psoas fibers: kCa increased nonlinearly from 1.2 +/- 0.2 s-1 at 15% Po to a maximum of 17.5 +/- 1.3 s-1 at 85% Po, representing a 15-fold increase in kCa with activation. Moreover, lowering free Mg2+ increased kCa only at submaximal Ca2+ in psoas fibers. Extraction of troponin C (TNC) from psoas fibers and recombination with bovine cardiac TNC did not significantly alter any of these characteristics of tension development kinetics. We conclude that significant differences exist between cardiac and fast-twitch skeletal muscles in terms of the effects of Ca2+ and Mg2+ on contraction kinetics and that these differences cannot be attributed solely to differences in TNC isoforms.

Publisher

American Physiological Society

Subject

Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Physiology

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