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1 Molecular Cardiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
2 Department of Aerospace Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jpjin{at}northwestern.edu.
Weight-bearing skeletal muscles change phenotype in response to unloading. Using the hind limb-suspension rat model, we investigated the regulation of myofilament protein isoforms in correlation to contractility. Four weeks of continuous hind limb unloading produced progressive atrophy and contractility changes in soleus but not extensor digitorum longus muscle. The unloaded soleus muscle also had decreased fatigue resistance. Along with the decrease of myosin heavy chain isoform I and IIa and increase of IIb and IIx, coordinated regulation of thin filament regulatory protein isoforms were observed: ?- and ?-tropomyosin decreased and ?-tropomyosin increased, resulting in an ?/? ratio similar to that in normal fast twitch skeletal muscle; troponin I and troponin T (TnT) both showed decrease in the slow isoform and increases in the fast isoform. The TnT isoform switching began after 7 days of unloading and TnI isoform showed detectable changes at 14 days while other protein isoform changes were not significant until 28 days of treatment. Correlating to the early changes in contractility, especially the resistance to fatigue, the early response of TnT isoform regulation may play a unique role in the adaptation of skeletal muscle to unloading. When the fast TnT gene expression was up-regulated in the unloaded soleus muscle, alternative RNA splicing switched to produce more high molecular weight acidic isoforms, reflecting a potential compensation for the decrease of slow TnT that is critical to skeletal muscle function. The results demonstrate that differential regulation of TnT isoforms is a sensitive mechanism in muscle adaptation to functional demands.
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