Muscle contraction Public domain image
Muscle has two purposes Generate motion Generate force
3 Muscle types Skeletal Cardiac Smooth Striated
Striated vs Smooth muscle tm?File_name=B33-8F&File_type=GIF m?File_name=19-51&File_type=GIF Images from BIODIDAC
What is meant by involuntary muscle?
Gross structure Image from National Cancer Institute ular/structure.html
Skeletal muscle Is an organ –Composed of connective tissue, muscle, blood vessels and nerves Muscle fibers have a variety of important structures –Sarcolemma, t-tubules, sarcoplasm, multiple nuclei, Sarcoplasmic reticulum, myofibrils, mitochondria, Myofibrils are important in contraction and composed of a variety of proteins –Troponin, tropomyosin, titin, nebulin –Actin and myosin are the contractile proteins
Myofibril and the Sarcomere Arrangement of thick and thin filaments creates a repeating pattern of alternating light and dark bands. One repeat is a sarcomere Image Source: bril.svg
Banding patterns Image Source:
Sliding filament theory of contraction overlapping actin and myosin filaments of fixed length slide past one another in an energy-requiring process, resulting in muscle contraction.
When contraction happens what happens to the size of the I band? Image Source: g/wiki/File:Sarcomere.svg
Titin and Nebulin Image Source:
Image author: Moralapostel Power Stroke Image source:
Regulatory proteins Original drawing by RMB Hoffman (Copyleft 2010). Based on Proteins 2008 Nov 1;73(2): Image source:
Muscle contraction can’t happen without ATP! ATP binds and myosin detaches from actin. ATP hydrolysis occurs, myosin lightly attaches to actin. Energy released allows the myosin to change confirmation and have the power stroke.
Excitation-contraction coupling and relaxation Which second messenger is important to this process?
T-tubules are next in the pathway Action potential is propagated through T- tubules. Image source BIODIDAC: awa.ca/thumbnails/file det.htm?File_name=B 32- 5J1&File_type=GIF
The sarcoplasmic reticulum has a high concentration of this second messenger, which it releases at this point. What is the second messenger?? (Not on your worksheet) Image Source BIODIDAC: humbnails/filedet.htm?File_na me=CELL018B&File_type=GI F
Calcium Binds to troponin and tropomyosin releases its inhibition on actin-myosin interactions. Image Author: Daniel Schwen Source: CH_cow_2.jpg
Calcium concentrations then decrease It is brought into the Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) How does this happen?? (the concentration of calcium is lower in the cytoplasm than it is in the SR)
Dissociation of Ca 2+ leads to… Restoration of tropomyosin activity.
Excitation-contraction coupling and relaxation Acetylcholine release from the motor neuron triggers Na + entry into the muscle initiating an action potential. T-tubules Ca ++ entry from the Sarcoplasmic reticculum Ca ++ binds to troponin, actin-myosin interaction is allowed. Power stroke Sliding filaments and contraction
Create a graph based on the data on your worksheet and answer the questions which follow