Morimoto S, Fujiwara T, Ohtsuki I
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka.
J Biochem. 1988 Dec;104(6):873-4. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a122573.
Single fibers from glycerinated rabbit psoas muscle were treated with a solution containing CDTA, a strong chelator of metal ions. The CDTA-treated fibers lost all of the troponin C and showed no Ca2+-activated tension development. The addition of troponin C restored the Ca2+-activated tension of CDTA-treated fibers. The tension-pCa relationship in the case of the CDTA-treated fibers reconstituted with troponin C was almost the same as that in the case of the same fibers before the CDTA treatment. These results are consistent with those of the previous study on the Ca2+-activated ATPase of CDTA-treated rabbit skeletal myofibrils.