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Isometric force and endurance in skeletal muscle of mice devoid of all known thyroid hormone receptors

Catarina Johansson, Per Kristian Lunde*, Sten Göthe†, Jan Lännergren and Håckan Westerblad

The importance of thyroid hormone receptors for isometric force, endurance and content of specific muscle enzymes was studied in isolated slow-twitch soleus and fast-twitch extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles in mice deficient in all known subtypes of thyroid hormone receptors (i.e. TR 1, 1, 2 and 3). The weights of soleus and EDL muscles were lower in TR-deficient (TR1^-/--/-) mice than in wild-type controls. The force per cross-sectional area was not significantly different between TR1^-/--/- and wild-type muscles. Soleus muscles of TR1^-/--/- mice showed increased contraction and relaxation times and the force-frequency relationship was shifted to the left. Soleus muscles of TR1^-/--/- mice were more fatigue resistant than wild-type controls. Protein analysis of TR1^-/--/- soleus muscles showed a marked increase in expression of the slow isoform of the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺ pump (SERCa2), whilst expression of the fast type (SERCa1) was decreased. There was also a major decrease in the ₂-subunit of the Na⁺-K⁺ pump in TR1^-/--/- soleus muscles. EDL muscles from TR1^-/--/- and wild-type mice showed no significant difference in contraction and relaxation times, fatigue resistance and protein expression. In conclusion, the present data show changes in contractile characteristics of skeletal muscles of TR1^-/--/- mice similar to those seen in hypothyroidism. We have previously shown that muscles of mice deficient in TR1 or TR display modest changes in muscle function. Thus, in skeletal muscle there seems to be functional overlap between TR1 and TR, so that the lack of one of the receptors to some extent can be compensated for by the presence of the other.

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