EVOLUTION OF SKELETAL-MUSCLE EXCITATION-CONTRACTION COUPLING AND THE APPEARANCE OF DIHYDROPYRIDINE-SENSITIVE INTRAMEMBRANE CHARGE MOVEMENT
EVOLUTION OF SKELETAL-MUSCLE EXCITATION-CONTRACTION COUPLING AND THE APPEARANCE OF DIHYDROPYRIDINE-SENSITIVE INTRAMEMBRANE CHARGE MOVEMENT
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DOI:
10.1098/rspb.1994.0026
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发表时间:
1994-02-22
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
BROWN, ER
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作者:
INOUE, I;TSUTSUI, I;BROWN, ER
Excitation-contraction (E-C) coupling was studied in the striated muscle fibres of lower chordates and invertebrates. In the agnathan Lampetra, twitches in response to electrical stimulation were unchanged after Ca2+ influx was blocked by the addition of Co2+. In the invertebrates examined (Branchiostoma, Oikopleura, Doliolum, Diphyes, Patinopecten and Sagitta), Ca2+ influx was necessary to cause a twitch. Whole-cell voltage clamp on muscle fibres of Lampetra revealed that intramembrane charge movement was partly blocked by 5 mu M nifedipine, a dihydropyridine (DHP) derivative. Charge movement in fibres from Branchiostoma and Patinopecten was insensitive to nifedipine, although the Ca2+ current was 75% blocked by 5 mu M nifedipine. The results suggest that the vertebrate type of E-C coupling was acquired between cephalochordates and agnathans, and was accompanied by the appearance of the DHP-sensitive component of intramembrane charge movement.