Biophysical Journal 46: 541-543 (1984)
© 1984 the Biophysical Society

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The hill coefficient for the Ca2+-activation of striated muscle contraction.

ABSTRACT

The following arguments are presented for the observation that curves relating free Ca2+ and force development of thin filament regulated myofilaments of skinned muscle fibers have Hill coefficient (n) greater than 4, which is the number of Ca2+ binding sites on troponin: Activation of the myofilaments is a process relaxing to a nonequilibrium steady state or stationary state. Systems operating at nonequilibrium stationary states are known to display Hill coefficients greater than the number of interacting sites and similar results have been obtained for Ca2+ activation of myofilament isometric force. The size of the basic subunit of thin filament regulated muscle may be the entire thin filament rather than seven actins, one tropomyosin, and one troponin. In this case the number of interacting sites may be on the order of hundreds. Hysteresis in the Ca2+ activation of isometric force might result from multiple stationary states and also might give rise to Hill coefficients greater than 4.

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