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Title: Effect of Myosin Isoforms on Cardiac Muscle Twitch of Mice, Rats and Humans
Authors: Prodanovic, Momcilo
Geeves, Michael
Poggesi C.
Regnier M.
Mijailovich S.
Issue Date: 2022
Abstract: To understand how pathology‐induced changes in contractile protein isoforms modulate cardiac muscle function, it is necessary to quantify the temporal‐mechanical properties of contractions that occur under various conditions. Pathological responses are much easier to study in ani-mal model systems than in humans, but extrapolation between species presents numerous chal-lenges. Employing computational approaches can help elucidate relationships that are difficult to test experimentally by translating the observations from rats and mice, as model organisms, to the human heart. Here, we use the spatially explicit MUSICO platform to model twitch contractions from rodent and human trabeculae collected in a single laboratory. This approach allowed us to identify the variations in kinetic characteristics of α‐ and β‐myosin isoforms across species and to quantify their effect on cardiac muscle contractile responses. The simulations showed how the twitch transient varied with the ratio of the two myosin isoforms. Particularly, the rate of tension rise was proportional to the fraction of α‐myosin present, while the β‐isoform dominated the rate of relaxation unless α‐myosin was >50%. Moreover, both the myosin isoform and the Ca2+ transient contributed to the twitch tension transient, allowing two levels of regulation of twitch contraction.
URI: https://scidar.kg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/13854
Type: article
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23031135
ISSN: 1661-6596
SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-85122937562
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