L24 - Skeletal Muscle Flashcards

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What are the three major types of muscle?

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  • skeletal
  • cardiac
  • smooth
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What is skeletal muscle?

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Muscle attached to the bone
- voluntary

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What is cardiac muscle?

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Muscle not attached to the bone
- specialised form of skeletal muscle
- involuntary

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What is smooth muscle?

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Muscle not attached to the bone
- myocytes with a fusiform shape
- involuntary

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What are key characteristics of skeletal muscle?

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  • attached to bone
  • composed of fibres
  • posture and movement
  • nervous control (voluntary)
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What are the different skeletal muscle structures?

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  • muscle
  • tendons
  • myofibrils
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What are muscles?

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Skeletal muscle made from bundles of multinucleated muscle cells

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What are tendons?

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Bundles of collagen fibres that attach muscle to bone

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What are myofibrils?

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Muscle cell formed from bundles of actin and myosin filaments organised into myofibrils

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How many actin filaments surround a single myosin filament?

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6 actin filaments

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What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum?

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Homologous to the ER found in other cells
- wrapped around the myofibril

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What does the SR act as in skeletal muscle?

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Ca2+ store

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What type of pattern is visible on skeletal muscle? What is it caused by?

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Striated pattern
- Accumulation of protein at different points of the fibre

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What are the functinal units of striated muscle?

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  • Z-disc (a-actinin)
  • thin filament (actin, tropomyosin, troponin)
  • M-band (myomesin)
  • thick filament (myosin, titin)
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What is the A band?

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Thick filaments (myosin)
- dark band at the centre of the sarcomere

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What is the I band?

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Contains thin filaments (actin)
- don’t overlap with thick filaments
- either side of A band with the Z disc in the centre

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What is the H zone?

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Light area found between the ends of thin filaments
- the centre of the sarcomere

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What is the M line?

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Protein that link central regions of thick filaments

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What is the Z disc?

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Network of proteins that anchor the thin filaments

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What is one sarcomere?

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Z line to Z line

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What are thick filaments like?

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  • 15nm in diameter
  • hundres of motor proton myosin
  • heavy and light chains
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What is the tail of a myosin molecule formed of?

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  • 2 intertwined chains
  • double globular head projecting from it at an angle (half left, half right)
    = middle filament region (M-region)
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What are thin filaments like?

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  • F-actins stranfs, coposed of string of globular G actin subunits
  • has active site that binds to head of myosin molecule
  • has tropomyosin that blocks active sites
  • bound by Ca-binding troponin
  • attached to Z disc
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What does a-actinin do?

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Bind and cross-link the ends of F-actin filaments from adjacent sarcomeres at the Z line

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What is a-actinin-2?
Ubiquitous in all types of muscle fibres
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What are the different parts of troponins?
- Troponin I (inhibitory) - troponin C (Ca binding) - troponin T (tropomyosin binding)
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What is the sliding filament mechanism?
Contraction - development of force rather than shortening of muscle fibres - myofilaments remain same length but overlap to a greater extent
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What are the sequence of steps in the cross bridge cycling?
- resting muscle - activation of contraction - terminating cross bridge
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What happens while the muscle is resting (in the cross bridge cycling)?
- myosin molecules bound to ADP and Pi - tropomyosin covers ‘myosin binding sites’ on actin filaments
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What happen in the activation of contraction (in the cross bridge cycling)?
- muscle stimulated, Ca levels inc - Ca2+ bind to troponin complex = moves tropomyosin, unmasks myosin binding sites - +ADP binds to actin - cross bridge formation releases ADP and Pi = movement of crossbridge
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What happens in the termination of the cross bridge (in the cross bridge cycling)?
- ATP binds myosin, breaks actin-myosin crossbridge - ATP converted to ADP, myosin returns to energised position
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What do skeletal muscle contractions require?
Synaptic input from motor neurons
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What can a single motor neuron do?
Innervate multiple muscle fibres - causin simultaneous contraction
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What is the structure of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ)?
- myelin sheath ends near surface of muscle fibre - axon terminal has vesicles containing Ach - motor end plate direclty under terminal portion of axon -
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What happens at NMJs?
- AP depolarises the axon terminal, open VGCC - releases Ach containing vesicles - Ach diffuses to motor end plate, activates nAch receptors (ionotropic receptors) - depolarises motor end plate = end plate potential
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What are the different fibre types of skeletal muscle?
- fast twitch (glycolytic, explosive power) - slow twitch (aerobic, fatigue resistant)
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What is the speed of contraction determined by?
Myosin heavy chain isoform expressed by the fibre
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What is the gene for speed?
Alpha actinin 3 - expressed in a subset of fast twitch muscles - presence of absence of variant correlates with athletic performance