scholarly journals Regulation of metabolism: the work-to-rest transition in skeletal muscle

2016 ◽  
Vol 310 (8) ◽  
pp. E633-E642 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Wilson

The behavior of oxidative phosphorylation predicted by a model for the mechanism and kinetics of cytochrome c oxidase is compared with the experimentally observed behavior during the work-to-rest transition in skeletal muscle. For both experiment and model, when work stops, the increase in creatine phosphate and decrease in creatine and inorganic phosphate concentrations ([CrP], [Cr], and [Pi]) begin immediately. The rate of change for each is maximal and then progressively slows as the increasing energy state ([ATP]/[ADP][Pi]) suppresses the rate of oxidative phosphorylation. The time courses can be reasonably fitted to single exponential curves with similar time constants. The energy state in the working and resting steady states at constant Po2 are dependent on the intramitochondrial [NAD+]/[NADH], mitochondrial content, and size of the creatine pool ([CrP] + [Cr]). The rate of change in [CrP] is linearly correlated with [CrP] and with [Pi] and [Cr]. The time constant for [CrP] increase in the resting and working steady states, and the rate of decrease in oxygen consumption are similarly dependent on the Po2 in the inspired gas (experimental) or tissue Po2 (model). Myoglobin strongly buffers intracellular Po2 below ∼15 torr, truncating the low end of the oxygen distribution in the tissue and suppressing intra- and intermyocyte oxygen gradients. The predictions of the model are consistent with the experimental data throughout the work/rest transition, providing valuable insights into the regulation of cellular and tissue metabolism.

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 1202-1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naranjan S. Dhalla ◽  
Margaret Fedelesova ◽  
Ivan Toffler

Rats were fed a vitamin E deficient diet for 5–10 weeks and the energy state of the hind leg muscle was examined. Both creatine phosphate and ATP were decreased by 64 and 22% of the control values, respectively, in the skeletal muscles of rats on the vitamin E deficient diet for 10 weeks, whereas ADP was increased by more than 100% without any significant changes in the level of AMP. The ratios ATP/ADP and ATP/AMP also declined markedly in the hind leg muscles of the rats on the vitamin E deficient diet for 10 weeks. The concentrations of NAD+ and NADPH decreased, whereas no significant changes in the levels of NADH and NADP+ were observed in the muscles of vitamin E deficient animals. Feeding a normal diet for 4 weeks to rats previously on the vitamin E deficient diet was found to restore the energy state of the muscle towards normal. Although no changes in the ultrastructure of the skeletal muscle were apparent, the levels of lactate and pyruvate as well as the lactate/pyruvate ratio were increased in vitamin E deficiency. The activities of lactate dehydrogenase and malate dehydrogenase were decreased whereas α-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase activity did not change significantly. These results indicate a dramatic alteration in skeletal muscle metabolism of vitamin E deficient rats. It is suggested that such a change may partly be due to a defect in the process of energy production.


2015 ◽  
Vol 309 (9) ◽  
pp. E793-E801 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Wilson

Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation is programmed to set and maintain metabolic homeostasis, and understanding that program is essential for an integrated view of cellular and tissue metabolism. The behavior predicted by a mechanism-based model for oxidative phosphorylation is compared with that experimentally measured for skeletal muscle when work is initiated. For the model, initiation of work is simulated by imposing a rate of ATP utilization of either 0.6 (equivalent of 13.4 ml O2·100 g tissue−1·min−1 or 6 μmol O2·g tissue−1·min−1) or 0.3 mM ATP/s. Creatine phosphate ([CrP]) decrease, both experimentally measured and predicted by the model, can be fit to a single exponential. Increase in ATP synthesis begins immediately but can show a “lag period,” during which the rate accelerates. The length of the lag period is similar for both experiment and model; in the model, the lag depends on intramitochondrial [NAD+]/[NADH], mitochondrial content, and size of the creatine pool ([CrP] + [Cr]) as well as the resting [CrP]/[Cr]. For in vivo conditions, increase in oxygen consumption may be linearly correlated with a decrease in [CrP] and an increase in inorganic phosphate ([Pi]) and [Cr]. The decrease in [CrP], resting and working steady state [CrP], and the increase in oxygen consumption are dependent on the Po2 in the inspired gas (experimental) or tissue Po2 (model). The metabolic behavior predicted by the model is consistent with available experimental measurements in muscle upon initiation of work, with the model providing valuable insight into how metabolic homeostasis is set and maintained.


Function ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie M Baehr ◽  
David C Hughes ◽  
Sarah A Lynch ◽  
Delphi Van Haver ◽  
Teresa Mendes Maia ◽  
...  

Abstract MuRF1 (TRIM63) is a muscle-specific E3 ubiquitin ligase and component of the ubiquitin proteasome system. MuRF1 is transcriptionally upregulated under conditions that cause muscle loss, in both rodents and humans, and is a recognized marker of muscle atrophy. In this study, we used in vivo electroporation to determine if MuRF1 overexpression alone can cause muscle atrophy and, in combination with ubiquitin proteomics, identify the endogenous MuRF1 substrates in skeletal muscle. Overexpression of MuRF1 in adult mice increases ubiquitination of myofibrillar and sarcoplasmic proteins, increases expression of genes associated with neuromuscular junction instability, and causes muscle atrophy. A total of 169 ubiquitination sites on 56 proteins were found to be regulated by MuRF1. MuRF1-mediated ubiquitination targeted both thick and thin filament contractile proteins, as well as, glycolytic enzymes, deubiquitinases, p62, and VCP. These data reveal a potential role for MuRF1 in not only the breakdown of the sarcomere, but also the regulation of metabolism and other proteolytic pathways in skeletal muscle.


1992 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Reuss ◽  
B Simon ◽  
C U Cotton

The mechanisms of apparent streaming potentials elicited across Necturus gallbladder epithelium by addition or removal of sucrose from the apical bathing solution were studied by assessing the time courses of: (a) the change in transepithelial voltage (Vms). (b) the change in osmolality at the cell surface (estimated with a tetrabutylammonium [TBA+]-selective microelectrode, using TBA+ as a tracer for sucrose), and (c) the change in cell impermeant solute concentration ([TMA+]i, measured with an intracellular double-barrel TMA(+)-selective microelectrode after loading the cells with TMA+ by transient permeabilization with nystatin). For both sucrose addition and removal, the time courses of Vms were the same as the time courses of the voltage signals produced by [TMA+]i, while the time courses of the voltage signals produced by [TBA+]o were much faster. These results suggest that the apparent streaming potentials are caused by changes of [NaCl] in the lateral intercellular spaces, whose time course reflects the changes in cell water volume (and osmolality) elicited by the alterations in apical solution osmolality. Changes in cell osmolality are slow relative to those of the apical solution osmolality, whereas lateral space osmolality follows cell osmolality rapidly, due to the large surface area of lateral membranes and the small volume of the spaces. Analysis of a simple mathematical model of the epithelium yields an apical membrane Lp in good agreement with previous measurements and suggests that elevations of the apical solution osmolality elicit rapid reductions in junctional ionic selectivity, also in good agreement with experimental determinations. Elevations in apical solution [NaCl] cause biphasic transepithelial voltage changes: a rapid negative Vms change of similar time course to that of a Na+/TBA+ bi-ionic potential and a slow positive Vms change of similar time course to that of the sucrose-induced apparent streaming potential. We conclude that the Vms changes elicited by addition of impermeant solute to the apical bathing solution are pseudo-streaming potentials, i.e., junctional diffusion potentials caused by salt concentration changes in the lateral intercellular spaces secondary to osmotic water flow from the cells to the apical bathing solution and from the lateral intercellular spaces to the cells. Our results do not support the notion of junctional solute-solvent coupling during transepithelial osmotic water flow.


2002 ◽  
Vol 365 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard KORZENIEWSKI ◽  
Jerzy A. ZOLADZ

Cytosolic pH in skeletal muscle may vary significantly because of proton production/consumption by creatine kinase and/or proton production by anaerobic glycolysis. A computer model of oxidative phosphorylation in intact skeletal muscle developed previously was used to study the kinetic effect of these variations on the oxidative phosphorylation system. Two kinds of influence were analysed: (i) via the change in pH across the inner mitochondrial membrane and (ii) via the shift in the equilibrium of the creatine kinase-catalysed reaction. Our simulations suggest that cytosolic pH has essentially no impact on the steady-state fluxes and most metabolite concentrations. On the other hand, rapid acidification/alkalization of cytosol causes a transient decrease/increase in the respiration rate. Furthermore, changes in pH seem to affect significantly the kinetic properties of transition between resting state and active state. An increase in pH brought about by proton consumption by creatine kinase at the onset of exercise lengthens the transition time. At intensive exercise levels this pH increase could lead to loss of the stability of the system, if not compensated by glycolytic H+ production. Thus our theoretical results stress the importance of processes/mechanisms that buffer/compensate for changes in cytosolic proton concentration. In particular, we suggest that the second main role of anaerobic glycolysis, apart from additional ATP supply, may be maintaining the stability of the system at intensive exercise.


1992 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 476-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. W. MacDonald ◽  
R. M. Winslow

Isolated rabbit hearts were perfused with Krebs-Henseleit buffer that contained 1.5 g/dl hemoglobin Ao [HbAo; PO2 at which half-saturation of hemoglobin occurs = 12 Torr], human hemoglobin cross-linked between alpha-chains with bis(3,5-dibromosalicyl)fumarate (alpha alpha-Hb; PO2 at which half-saturation of hemoglobin occurs = 30 Torr), or fatty acid-free bovine serum albumin (BSA). Myocardial performance and oxygen uptake were determined at different aortic PO2's [arterial PO2 (PaO2)] by use of an isovolumic Langendorff preparation. Function and oxygen uptake were comparable among the three different groups of hearts at an average mean PaO2 of 557 Torr. As PaO2 decreased, myocardial function was preserved better in hearts perfused with hemoglobin than in hearts perfused with Krebs-Henseleit buffer alone or with BSA. Hearts perfused with either HbAo or alpha alpha-Hb exhibited similar 10% decreases in left ventricular developed pressure and rate of change in left ventricular developed pressure at PaO2 of 141 Torr compared with a 58% decrease with BSA. However, corresponding venous PO2's were lower with HbAo (20 Torr) than with alpha alpha-Hb (35 Torr), and oxygen uptake decreased by 36% with HbAo but remained constant with alpha alpha-Hb. These data suggest that although myocardial function can be sustained over a fairly broad range of hemoglobin oxygen affinities, tissue oxygen gradients and myocardial oxygen uptake are maintained better by cell-free hemoglobin with an oxygen affinity in the normal physiological range.


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