X-ray diffraction observations of chemically skinned frog skeletal muscle processed by an improved method

Biophysical Journal
A Magid, M K Reedy

Abstract

Whole frog sartorius muscles can be chemically skinned in approximately 2 h by relaxing solutions containing 0.5% Triton X-100. The intensity and order of the X-ray diffraction pattern from living muscle is largely retained after such skinning, indicating good retention of native structure in fibrils and filaments. Best X-ray results were obtained using a solution with (mM): 75 K acetate; 5 Mg acetate; 5 ATP; 5 EGTA; 15 K phosphate, 2% PVP, pH 7.0. Equatorial X-ray patterns showed that myofibrils swell after detergent skinning, as also observed after mechanical skinning. This swelling could be reversed by adding high molecular weight colloids (PVP or dextran) to the extracting solution. By finding the colloid osmotic pressure needed to restore the in vivo interfilament spacing (3% PVP, 4 X 10(4) mol wt) the swelling pressure was estimated as 35 Torr in a standard KCl-based relaxing solution. The swelling pressure and the extent of swelling were less than acetate replaced chloride as the major anion. Detergent-skinned muscle lost the constant-volume relation between sarcomere length and lattice spacing seen in intact muscle. Changes in A band spacing were paralleled by changes in I and band-Z line spacing at a constant sarcomere...Continue Reading

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