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Mechanokinetics of Rapid Tension Recovery in Muscle: The Myosin Working Stroke Is Followed by a Slower Release of Phosphate

David A. Smith ^* and John Sleep 

^* Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia; and Randall Centre, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom

Correspondence: Address reprint requests to Dr. David Smith, Dept. of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. Tel.: 61-3-9905-2518; Fax: 61-3-9905-2547; E-mail: david.smith{at}med.monash.edu.au.

Crystallographic and biochemical evidence suggests that the myosin working stroke that generates force in muscle is accompanied by the release of inorganic phosphate (Pi), but the order and relative speed of these transitions is not firmly established. To address this problem, the theory of A. F. Huxley and R. M. Simmons for the length-step response is averaged over elastic strains imposed by filament structure and extended to include a Pi-release transition. Models of this kind are applied to existing tension-recovery data from length steps at different phosphate concentrations, and from phosphate jumps upon release of caged phosphate. This body of data is simulated by the model in which the force-generating event is followed by Pi release. A version in which the Pi-release transition is slow provides a better fit than a version with rapid Pi release and a slow transition preceding force generation. If Pi is released before force generation, the predicted rate of slow recovery increases with the size of the step, which is not observed. Some implications for theories of muscle contraction are discussed.

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