AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 261, Issue 2 C342-C347, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Adenine nucleotide synthesis in exercising and endurance-trained skeletal muscle

P. C. Tullson and R. L. Terjung
Department of Physiology, State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse 13210.

Strenuous exercise leads to increased efflux of purine nucleoside and base that should necessitate recovery of adenine nucleotides by either the de novo synthesis or salvage pathway. De novo synthesis of adenine nucleotide was measured in quiescent and contracting muscle of sedentary and exercise-trained rats using an isolated perfused hindquarter preparation. Synthesis rates were assessed by measuring the incorporation of [1-14C]glycine into adenine nucleotide in muscles of both resting and stimulated hindlimbs after 1 h of either low- or high-energy demand isometric contractions. In nonstimulated sedentary and trained muscles, rates of de novo synthesis were similar. The effect of muscle contractions on de novo synthesis varied among muscle fiber types. Contracting, nonfatigued fast-twitch muscle sections showed significant declines in de novo synthesis in both sedentary and trained groups. Rates in slow-twitch red fibers and fatigued fast-twitch white fiber sections were not different from rest. Supplementing the perfusate with 5 mM ribose caused de novo synthesis to rise three- to fourfold in each of the fiber sections. However, the response in synthesis rates due to exercise was similar with or without ribose supplementation. De novo synthesis does not increase during exercise but exhibits an unchanged or reduced rate depending on the expected energy balance within the cell. This would occur if the energy state of muscle exerts significant control over de novo synthesis of adenine nucleotide.

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