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Influence of calcium and other divalent cations on protein turnover in rat skeletal muscle.

When rat muscles were incubated in Ca2+-free media, their rates of protein break-down were significantly lower than in complete medium (2.58 mM Ca2+). Dantrolene and 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoic acid 8-(diethylamino)octyl ester, inhibitors of Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, also reduced muscle proteolysis. When Ca2+ was added (up to 5.16 mM), proteolysis increased progressively up to 70% in the intact soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles and up to 300% in the cut diaphragm preparation. Addition of Ca2+ did not affect the muscles' ATP or phosphocreatine content and increased protein synthesis slightly or not at all. Sr2+, Ba2+, and Mn2+ also increased proteolysis, but were less effective than Ca2+. Mg2+ inhibited the enhancement of proteolysis by Ca2+. This stimulation by Ca2+ was not affected by inhibitors of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels, calmodulin, metalloendoproteases, microfilament or microtubule formation, or mersalyl. High Ca2+ levels also increased prostaglandin (PG) E2 production, although a rise in PGE2 did not appear essential for the increased proteolysis. The proteolysis induced by Ca2+ was prevented in muscles treated with Ep-475 or leupeptin. By contrast, these inhibitors of thiol proteases did not affect protein breakdown in Ca2+-free medium. Thus extracellular Ca2+ activates and Mg2+ inhibits a proteolytic pathway involving thiol proteases.[1]

References

  1. Influence of calcium and other divalent cations on protein turnover in rat skeletal muscle. Baracos, V., Greenberg, R.E., Goldberg, A.L. Am. J. Physiol. (1986) [Pubmed]
 
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