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* Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195; and National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Correspondence: Address reprint requests to Donald A. Martyn, PhD, Dept. of Bioengineering, Box 357962, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. Tel.: 206-543-4478; Fax: 206-685-3300; E-mail: dmartyn{at}u.washington.edu.
Low angle x-ray diffraction measurements of myofilament lattice spacing (D1,0) and equatorial reflection intensity ratio (I1,1/I1,0) were made in relaxed skinned cardiac trabeculae from rats. We tested the hypothesis that the degree of weak cross-bridge (Xbr) binding, which has been shown to be obligatory for force generation in skeletal muscle, is modulated by changes in lattice spacing in skinned cardiac muscle. Altered weak Xbr binding was detected both by changes in I1,1/I1,0 and by measurements of chord stiffness (chord K). Both measurements showed that, similar to skeletal muscle, the probability of weak Xbr binding at 170-mM ionic strength was significantly enhanced by lowering temperature to 5°C. The effects of lattice spacing on weak Xbr binding were therefore determined under these conditions. Changes in D1,0, I1,1/I1,0, and chord K by osmotic compression with dextran T500 were determined at sarcomere lengths (SL) of 2.0 and 2.35 µm. At each SL increasing [dextran] caused D1,0 to decrease and both I1,1/I1,0 and chord K to increase, indicating increased weak Xbr binding. The results suggest that in intact cardiac muscle increasing SL and decreasing lattice spacing could lead to increased force by increasing the probability of initial weak Xbr binding.
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