ArticleBiophysical journal2013
An embryonic myosin isoform enables stretch activation and cyclical power in Drosophila jump muscle.
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- Stretch activation combats force loss from fatigue in fast-contracting mouse skeletal muscle fibers.The Journal of general physiology · 2025Article
- A Drosophila cardiac myosin increases jump muscle stretch activation and shortening deactivation.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- Shortening deactivation: quantifying a critical component of cyclical muscle contraction.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2022Article
- Enhancing diastolic function by strain-dependent detachment of cardiac myosin crossbridges.The Journal of general physiology · 2020Article
- A myosin-based mechanism for stretch activation and its possible role revealed by varying phosphate concentration in fast and slow mouse skeletal muscle fibers.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2019Article
- Five Alternative Myosin Converter Domains Influence Muscle Power, Stretch Activation, and Kinetics.Biophysical journal · 2018Article
- The Drosophila indirect flight muscle myosin heavy chain isoform is insufficient to transform the jump muscle into a highly stretch-activated muscle type.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2017Article
- An embryonic myosin converter domain influences Drosophila indirect flight muscle stretch activation, power generation and flight.The Journal of experimental biology · 2014Article
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Abstract
The mechanism behind stretch activation (SA), a mechanical property that increases muscle force and oscillatory power generation, is not known. We used Drosophila transgenic techniques and our new muscle preparation, the jump muscle, to determine if myosin heavy chain isoforms influence the magnitude and rate of SA force generation. We found that Drosophila jump muscles show very low SA force and cannot produce positive power under oscillatory conditions at pCa 5.0. However, we transformed the jump muscle to be moderately stretch-activatable by replacing its myosin isoform with an embryonic isoform (EMB). Expressing EMB, jump muscle SA force increased by 163% and it generated net positive power. The rate of SA force development decreased by 58% with EMB expression. Power generation is Pi dependent as >4 mM Pi was required for positive power from EMB. Pi increased EMB SA force, but not wild-type SA force. Our data suggest that when muscle expressing EMB is stretched, EMB is more easily driven backward to a weakly bound state than wild-type jump muscle. This increases the number of myosin heads available to rapidly bind to actin and contribute to SA force generation. We conclude that myosin heavy chain isoforms influence both SA kinetics and SA force, which can determine if a muscle is capable of generating oscillatory power at a fixed calcium concentration.
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