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Kinase-specific responsiveness to incremental contractile activity in skeletal muscle with low and high mitochondrial content

Muscle Health Research Centre, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Submitted 6 March 2008 ; accepted in final form 9 May 2008

Muscle contractions activate protein kinases, leading to signal transduction. We hypothesized that kinase activation would be influenced by mitochondrial content, as well as by contractile activity-induced increases in muscle O₂ consumption (O₂). Kinase phosphorylation in high-oxidative red and low-oxidative white tibialis anterior (TA) muscle (RTA and WTA, respectively) with 2.5-fold differences in mitochondrial content were compared. Stimulation of the TA muscle elicited large increases in O₂ (3- to 6-fold and 4- to 60-fold above resting levels in WTA and RTA, respectively). At rest, AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), p38, p42, and p44 activation were nearly twofold greater in WTA than in RTA, suggesting an inverse relationship between mitochondrial content and kinase activation in resting muscle. During contractions, similar degrees of phosphorylation in RTA and WTA were evident as a function of O₂ for p38 and p42. During increases in O₂ up to sixfold above rest, greater responses were observed in RTA than in WTA for AMPK and p44, whereas Akt activation was greater in WTA. In RTA, elevations in O₂ elicited increases in AMPK and p44 activation, whereas Akt, p38, and p42 were less sensitive to increments in O₂. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) production was greater in mitochondria from white muscle, but when it was calculated in the context of the whole muscle, ROS production was twofold greater in red than in white myofibers. Thus mitochondrial content influences ROS production and is inversely related to kinase activation in resting muscle. During contractions, kinases are differentially sensitive to contraction-induced increments in O₂, suggesting that muscle mitochondrial content is important, but it is not the sole determinant of kinase activation during exercise of different intensities.

muscle oxygen consumption; kinase activation; muscle plasticity; signal transduction; mitochondrial biogenesis

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