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Sliding Filament Model of Muscle Contraction
Larry M. Frolich, Ph.D.April 15, 2010
HOOK• Muscle is only biological
cell/tissue that can cause rapid, large-scale movement
• Role of filamentous proteins understood as great and early breakthrough in cell/molecular biology—lots of protein available, (like Hemoglobin)
I normally cover neurons and muscle together as part of unit on movement—see website
Sliding Filament Model of Muscle Contraction
OUTLINE Motor Unit Muscle Cell Architecture
and Function Sliding Filamentous
Proteins Muscle Force Properties
Muscle Cells and Neurons• are unique to animals• have “excitable”
membranes that transmit action potentials
• allow for rapid large-scale movements
• Motor Unit is one motor neuron plus the muscle cells that it stimulates (or synapses with)--the minimal construct that allows for movement in our body
• Muscle fibers are cells—visible to naked eye as fibers in meat, chicken, fish
• Sarcolemma is muscle cell membrane—”excitable” so has action potentials just like neurons
• Because cell is large, T-tubules carry action potential—ionic depolarization—into internal parts of cell
• Sarcoplasmic reticulum releases calcium which triggers actin-myosin protein filaments to contract
Muscle cells
Sequence of events Motor Neuron to Muscle contraction at cellular level (from the Brain Top to Bottom) [link]
Muscle cell or muscle “fiber” is composed of myofibrils which contain sarcomeres or contractile “units”
Myo-Sarco-(= muscle)
Molecular Basis of Muscle Function
• Actin-Myosin “sliding filament” model
• Explains– Muscle movement
or shortening– Muscle force
generation or “contraction”
• Actin and myosin filamentous proteins are packed parallel in sarcomeres
How does the actin-myosin complex (sarcomere) shorten and contract the muscle?
• Actin = thin filament “lattice-work”
• Myosin = thick filament “core”
• Ca release triggers the formation of molecular cross-bridges from myosin to actin
• Cross-bridges “row” or “reach” for more adjacent binding site on actin.
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And the result is muscle movement
Details, details, details…
• Tropomyosin and troponin create binding site on actin filament
• Presence of Ca++ exposes binding site
• “Cocked” cross-bridge on myosin (uses ATP) then attaches to binding site and pulls or “rows” actin filament
• Cross-bridge linkage is broken and re-cocks to link with next binding site
Details Video
Sliding Filament Model explains• Why muscle has peak force at
certain length: (ideal actin-myosin overlap for cross-bridge formation)—BUCKET DEMO
• More muscle cells means more muscle force: (more cross-bridge formation)—EMG, Isolated muscle online lab
• Concentric/isometric/eccentric contraction: Cross-bridges continue to form and “reach” even if opposing force is greater