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The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 59, 305-317, Copyright © 1972 by The Rockefeller University Press

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Regulation of Tension in the Skinned Crayfish Muscle Fiber

II. Role of Calcium



P. W. Brandt 1, J. P. Reuben 1, and H. Grundfest 1

1 From the Department of Anatomy and the Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York 10032, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543

Tension outputs were measured in skinned crayfish muscle fibers exposed to solutions variously buffered for both Mg-adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and Ca. Two types of data are shown, relating tension and substrate concentration with different levels of Ca present, or tension and calcium concentration at different levels of substrate. The data are fitted by curves calculated from a general equation for substrate inhibition. The equation is based on the schema that both tension and relaxation are induced by the substrate and that the relaxing effect of excess substrate is repressed by calcium. The physiological findings of the present work are similar to data obtained by others on biochemical model systems of the contractile proteins.

Submitted on July 14, 1971


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