Laser flash photolysis of diazo-2, a caged calcium chelator: The relationship between the extent and rate of smooth muscle relaxation

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
R. Pelc ◽  
N. Ishii ◽  
C. C. Ashley
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash Photolysis ◽  
Muscle Relaxation ◽  
Laser Flash ◽  
Smooth Muscle Relaxation ◽  
Caged Calcium ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Cross-bridge kinetics, cooperativity, and negatively strained cross-bridges in vertebrate smooth muscle. A laser-flash photolysis study.

1988 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
A V Somlyo ◽  
Y E Goldman ◽  
T Fujimori ◽  
M Bond ◽  
D R Trentham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash ◽  
Rate Of Force Development ◽  
Rapid Phase ◽  
Force Development ◽  
Caged Atp ◽  
Cross Bridge ◽  
Cross Bridges

The effects of laser-flash photolytic release of ATP from caged ATP [P3-1(2-nitrophenyl)ethyladenosine-5'-triphosphate] on stiffness and tension transients were studied in permeabilized guinea pig protal vein smooth muscle. During rigor, induced by removing ATP from the relaxed or contracting muscles, stiffness was greater than in relaxed muscle, and electron microscopy showed cross-bridges attached to actin filaments at an approximately 45 degree angle. In the absence of Ca2+, liberation of ATP (0.1-1 mM) into muscles in rigor caused relaxation, with kinetics indicating cooperative reattachment of some cross-bridges. Inorganic phosphate (Pi; 20 mM) accelerated relaxation. A rapid phase of force development, accompanied by a decline in stiffness and unaffected by 20 mM Pi, was observed upon liberation of ATP in muscles that were released by 0.5-1.0% just before the laser pulse. This force increment observed upon detachment suggests that the cross-bridges can bear a negative tension. The second-order rate constant for detachment of rigor cross-bridges by ATP, in the absence of Ca2+, was estimated to be 0.1-2.5 X 10(5) M-1s-1, which indicates that this reaction is too fast to limit the rate of ATP hydrolysis during physiological contractions. In the presence of Ca2+, force development occurred at a rate (0.4 s-1) similar to that of intact, electrically stimulated tissue. The rate of force development was an order of magnitude faster in muscles that had been thiophosphorylated with ATP gamma S before the photochemical liberation of ATP, which indicates that under physiological conditions, in non-thiophosphorylated muscles, light-chain phosphorylation, rather than intrinsic properties of the actomyosin cross-bridges, limits the rate of force development. The release of micromolar ATP or CTP from caged ATP or caged CTP caused force development of up to 40% of maximal active tension in the absence of Ca2+, consistent with cooperative attachment of cross-bridges. Cooperative reattachment of dephosphorylated cross-bridges may contribute to force maintenance at low energy cost and low cross-bridge cycling rates in smooth muscle.

Effect of Aggregation on Bacteriochlorin a Triplet-state Formation: A Laser Flash Photolysis Study¶

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Damoiseau ◽  
Francis Tfibel ◽  
Maryse Hoebeke ◽  
Marie-Pierre Fontaine-Aupart
Keyword(s):  
Triplet State ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash Photolysis ◽  
Laser Flash
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