Summary: Skeletal Muscle Plasticity

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  • 1 Introduction

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  • What is the aim of the study?

    provide a synopsis of how muscle cells adapt their structural and functional properties in accordance with the type and amount of physical stress imposed on the system. With a special focus on the regulation of the myosin heavy chain.
  • Which inducers of muscular adaptation will be discussed?

    Endurance training, Resistance training, muscle disuse, muscle unloading
  • What is thought about the myosin hevay chain expression when the environment forces a muscle to adapt?

    The expression will change
  • 2 Fundamental Concepts

  • 2.1 Organelle Plasticity

  • How is muscle plasticity defined?

    As the capacity of the muscle cell to alter
    1. protein amount
    2. protein type
  • 2.2 Protein Isoform

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  • What is the use of having different isoforms of a molecule?

    They will have slight variations in aminoacid sequenses that will result in altered structural, functional and/or enzymatic expression of that protein.
  • How does altered mechanical activity affect the contractile properties of striated muscle via MHC expression?

    more load: Type 2x --> Type 2a <-- Type 1
    More time: Type 2a --> Type 1
  • What are the common features of type 2 muscle fibers?

    • high ATPase activity and glycolytic activity
    • Low oxidative capacity
    • Peak power function
    • sometimes active
  • 2.3 Protein Turnover

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  • Give an estimate of the MHC half-life:

    7-10 days
  • Can the half-life of MHC be increased? and how?

    Yes, by low overal contractile activity and muscle unloading
  • 2.4 Flow of Genetic Information

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  • Name several key steps in which a protein is synthesized and maintained.

    • transcription
    • pre-RNA processing
    • Translation
    • post translation modifications
    • molecular stability
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