Effects of 2,3-butanedione monoxime on contraction of frog skeletal muscles: An X-ray diffraction study |
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Authors: | N. Yagi S. Takemori M. Watanabe K. Horiuti Y. Amemiya |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Pharmacology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryomachi, Aoba-ku, 980 Sendai, Japan;(2) Department of Physiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minatoku, 105 Tokyo, Japan;(3) Photon Factory, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, 203 Tsukuba, Japan;(4) Present address: Department of Physiology, Medical College of Oita, 879-56 Oita, Japan |
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Abstract: | Summary We studied the effects of BDM (2,3-butanedione monoxime) on the tetanic contraction of frog skeletal muscles using an X-ray diffraction technique. BDM significantly increased the resting equatorial intensity ratio (I1,0/I1,1). In sartorius muscle, 3mm BDM suppressed tetanic tension by 40–70% whereas the equatorial intensity ratio, which is 2.6 at rest, decreased to 0.75 during tetanus, close to the value in normal contraction (about 0.50). BDM (3mm) reduced the intensity increase of the 5.1-nm layer-line to 41%, that of the 5.9-nm layer-line to 24%, and the intensity decrease of the second myosin meridional reflection (at 1/21.5 nm–1) at 81%. In overstretched semitendinosus muscle, 3mm BDM did not significantly reduce the intensity increase of the second actin layer-line during activation, suggesting that enough calcium is released to activate the regulatory system and the regulatory proteins are intact. These results indicate that BDM suppresses tetanic tension by mainly inhibiting actin-myosin interaction. It has a smaller effect on the equatorial reflections and myosin layer-lines than on the actin layer-lines, suggesting that BDM-influenced myosin heads may bind to actin without following the symmetry of the actin helix. |
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