MT1 Flashcards
4 properties of muscles
- Contractility: contract forcefully
- Extensibility: contract from an extended state
- Excitability: respond to stimulus by producing electric signals
- Elasticity: recoil to resting length after extension
Gross muscle histology (CT, components)
- Periosteum of bone continues as tendon (dense reg), into muscle fascia surround whole muscle
- Below fascia, epimysium surrounds all units of muscle fibres (fascicles)
- Perimysium surrounds each individual fascicle
- Endomysium surrounds each muscle fibre in the fascicle
- Arteries, veins, and nerves branch to supply each muscle fibre, each fibre has one motor neuron connection at the synaptic end bulb
Muscle fibre histology
- Nuclei on the sides to prevent interference with electric signal
- Sarcolemma is the cell membrane
- Sarcoplasmic reticulum is endoplasmic reticulum storing high amounts of calcium
- Mitochondria produce ATP required for muscle contraction/relaxation
- Triad comp of 2 terminal Cisternae (thick inward fold of sarcolemma) and a T-tubule
- Myofibrils comp of sarcomeres comp of actin and myosin myofilament
Muscle fibre characteristics
- Long, multinuclenated (myoblast fusion), hexagonal (allow dense packing with spaces for nerves and BV b/w), striated (alternating myofibril proteins create bands)
- Sarcomeres in series makes myofibril, in series and parallel forms muscle fibre
Structure of actin myofilaments
- Thin filament
- comp of monomer G actin proteins with active site (where myosin binds) bonded together to form F actin
- tropomyosin wraps around F actin, covering active sites
- troponin has attachment site for tropomyosin, Ca2+, and to G actin, when Ca2+ binds to troponin, it moves tropomyosin off of actin to expose active sites for myosin binding; work with tropomyosin to reg myosin binding
Structure of myosin myofilament
- thick filament
- myosin heavy chain coil to form alpha helix rod region, connect to head at hinge
- myosin light chains off myosin heads, contain ATPase to breakdown ATP for cross-bridge cycling
- myosin molecules connected together at rod with heads staggered (allow constant binding of actin) to form myosin myofilament
- Z disk
- I band
- A band
- H zone
- M line
- arrg of actin and myosin
- attachment site for actin
- region comp actin only, next to Z disk
- actin and myosin overlap
- myosin only part of sarcomere
- proteins hold myosin rods together
- hexagonal arrangement of units of 6 actin around 1 myosin
sliding filament model:
1. relaxed muscle
2. partially contracted muscle
3. maximally contracted muscle
A band does not change size
1. I band and H zone are at max length
2. I band and H zone narrow as myosin pulls actin, pulling the Z disks closer
3. I band and H zone disappear as myosin pulled actin strand together so the ends overlap
Cross bridge cycle
- presence of Ca2+ binding to troponin moves tropomyosin to expose actin active sites to myosin
- ATP broken down by myosin ATPase allow myosin head to enter high E pos, myosin binds to actin forming cross bridge, Pi released
- power stroke pulls actin closer to the M line, shortening sarcomere, ADP detaches
- ATP binds to myosin to release it from actin, myosin head enter low E pos, hydrolysis of ATP energizes myosin, repeat from step 2 if enough Ca2+ and ATP
- bare zone
- characteristic of cross bridges
- electric properties of muscle cell
- MAP propagatuon
- area of myosin with no cross bridge
- are asynchronous to allow for constant binding of actin for contraction
- RMP at -85 mV, greater than neuron bc more K+ leak channels, K+ inside/Na+ outside at rest
- AP (stimulus) causes another AP to be produced in adj sarcolemma, allowing the AP to propagate down the cell
Neuromuscular junction
1. overview
2. process
- where the synaptic end bulb of motor neuron meets the motor end plate of the sarcolemma
- AP depolarize axon terminal, triggering Ca2+ channels to release Ca2+ into synaptic end bulb, Ca2+ trigger exocytosis of synaptic vesicles to release Ach into the synaptic clef, Ach diffuse across to bind to Na+ channel on motor end plate to depolarize cell
excitation-contraction coupling
SR at rest has no Ca2+ permeability
1. MAP reaches triad, CaV1.1 detects change in MP of T-tubule, triggers ryanodine receptors in SR to open and release Ca2+
2. Ca2+ in sarcoplasm bind to troponin to begin cross-bridge cycling
Titin
1. overview
2. Role
3. how it works
- From M-line to Z disk, largest protein, two for each sarcomere
- Stabilize myosin, spring prevent overstretching, adhesion
- Compliant proximal Ig near Z disk ext with low F, stiff PEVK ext with high F, N2A connects the two regions, when Ca2+in area, binds to actin; when titin stretches, increase recoil (elastic property) to provide F transmission
nebulin
1. overview
2. how it works
3. neublin KO
- Spans the length of actin to the Z disk
- Specify actin length to stabilize and maintain struc integrity while it is pulled
- WT mice show consistent sarcomeres length and increased F in comparison to KO; makes cross bridge more efficient
- cytoskeletal protein
- sarcomere force transmission
- costamere force transmission
- Keep sarcomeres aligned and anchored at M line and Z disks
- Longitudinal F transfer from Z disks to MTJ when myosin pulls on actin
- Lateral F transfer between sarcomeres in parallel to ECM (endomysium) to MTJ, continued contraction creates org buckling of the lipid bilayer (festoon)