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¹ University of California – San Diego, Department of Medicine, Physiology Division, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC0623A, La Jolla, CA 92093-0623, USA

The purpose of this investigation was to utilize 2,3-butanedione monoxime (BDM; an inhibitor of contractile activation) to dissociate cytosolic [Ca²⁺] ([Ca²⁺]_c) from the putative respiratory regulators that arise from muscle contraction-induced ATP utilization in order to determine the relative contribution of [Ca²⁺]_c on intracellular P_O2 (P_iO2) kinetics during the transition from rest to contractions in single skeletal myocytes isolated from Xenopus laevis lumbrical muscle. Myocytes were subjected to electrically induced isometric tetanic contractions (0.25 Hz; 2-min bouts) while peak tension and either [Ca²⁺]_c (n= 7; ratiometric fluorescence microscopy) or P_iO2 (n= 7; phosphorescence microscopy) was measured continuously. Cells were studied under both control and 3 mM BDM conditions in randomized order. Initial (control, 100 ± 0%; BDM, 72.6 ± 4.6%), midpoint (control, 86.7 ± 1.8%; BDM, 61.6 ± 4.1%) and end (control, 85.0 ± 2.8%; BDM, 57.5 ± 5.0%) peak tensions (normalized to initial control values) were significantly reduced (P < 0.05) with BDM compared with control (n= 14). Despite the reduced peak tension, peak [Ca²⁺]_c was not altered (P > 0.05) between control and BDM trials. Thus, the peak tension-to-peak [Ca²⁺]_c ratio was reduced with BDM compared with control. The absolute fall in P_iO2 with contractions, which is proportional to the rise in , was significantly reduced with BDM (13.2 ± 1.3 mmHg) compared with control (22.0 ± 2.0 mmHg). However, P_iO2 onset kinetics (i.e. mean response time (MRT)) was not altered between BDM (66.8 ± 8.0 s) and control (64.9 ± 6.3 s) trials. Therefore, the initial rate of change (defined as the fall in P_iO2/MRT) was significantly slower in BDM fibres compared with control. These data demonstrate in these isolated single skeletal muscle fibres that unchanged peak [Ca²⁺]_c in the face of reduced metabolic feedback from the contractile sites evoked with BDM did not alter P_iO2 onset kinetics in isolated single frog myocytes, suggesting that metabolic signals arising from the contractile sites play a more substantial role than [Ca²⁺]_c in the signalling pathway to oxidative phosphorylation during the transition from rest to repeated tetanic contractions.

(Received 31 August 2004; accepted after revision 16 November 2004; first published online 18 November 2004)
Corresponding author M. C. Hogan: 9500 Gilman Drive, 0623A, La Jolla, CA 92093-0623, USA. Email: mchogan{at}ucsd.edu

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