/* * Modelling Actin-Myosin Binding in Airway Smooth Muscle * * Model Status * * This CellML model runs in both OpenCell and COR but to replicate * the published results (the first part of figure 3b). The units * have been checked and they are consistent. * * Model Structure * * ABSTRACT: We carried out a detailed mathematical analysis of * the effects of length fluctuations on the dynamically evolving * cross-bridge distributions, simulating those that occur in airway * smooth muscle during breathing. We used the latch regulation * scheme of Hai and Murphy (Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol. 255:C86-C94, * 1988) integrated with Huxley's sliding filament theory of muscle * contraction. This analysis showed that imposed length fluctuations * decrease the mean number of attached bridges, depress muscle * force and stiffness, and increase force-length hysteresis. At * frequencies >0.1 Hz, the bond-length distribution of slowly * cycling latch bridges changed little over the stretch cycle * and contributed almost elastically to muscle force, but the * rapidly cycling cross-bridge distribution changed substantially * and dominated the hysteresis. By contrast, at frequencies greater * than 0.033 Hz this behavior was reversed: the rapid cycling * cross-bridge distribution changed little, effectively functioning * as a constant force generator, while the latch bridge bond distribution * changed substantially and dominated the stiffness and hysteresis. * The analysis showed the dissociation of force/length hysteresis * and cross-bridge cycling rates when strain amplitude exceeds * 3%; that is, there is only a weak coupling between net external * mechanical work and the ATP consumption required for cycling * cross-bridges during the oscillatory steady state. Although * these results are specific to airway smooth muscle, the approach * generalizes to other smooth muscles subjected to cyclic length * fluctuations. * * The original paper reference is cited below: * * Perturbed Equilibria of Myosin Binding in Airway Smooth Muscle: * Bond-Length Distributions, Mechanics, and ATP Metabolism, Srboljub * M. Mijailovich, James P. Butler, and Jeffrey J. Fredberg, 2000, * Biophysical Journal, 79, 2667-2681. PubMed ID: 11053139 * * reaction diagram * * [[Image file: mijailovich_2000.png]] * * Hai and Murphy's four-state model: the latch regulatory scheme * for Ca2+-dependent smooth muscle activation and Huxley's slidin * filament model. A represents the actin filament, M represents * detached myosin, Mp is detached, phosphorylated myosin, AM is * the actin-myosin complex, and AMp is the phosphorylated actin-myosin * complex. */ import nsrunit; unit conversion on; // unit nanometre predefined unit first_order_rate_constant=1 second^(-1); math main { realDomain time second; time.min=0; extern time.max; extern time.delta; real M(time) dimensionless; when(time=time.min) M=1.0; real AM(time) dimensionless; when(time=time.min) AM=0.0; real Mp(time) dimensionless; when(time=time.min) Mp=0.0; real k1(time) first_order_rate_constant; real k2 first_order_rate_constant; k2=0.1; real gx first_order_rate_constant; gx=0.11; real AMp(time) dimensionless; when(time=time.min) AMp=0.0; real fp first_order_rate_constant; fp=0.44; real gp first_order_rate_constant; gp=0.11; real k5 first_order_rate_constant; k5=0.1; real k6(time) first_order_rate_constant; real fp1 first_order_rate_constant; fp1=0.88; real gp1 first_order_rate_constant; gp1=0.22; real g1 first_order_rate_constant; g1=0.01; real gp3 first_order_rate_constant; real g3 first_order_rate_constant; real g2 first_order_rate_constant; real gp2 first_order_rate_constant; // // M:time=((-1)*(k1*M)+k2*Mp+gx*AM); // Mp:time=(gp*AMp+k1*M-(k2+fp)*Mp); // AMp:time=(fp*Mp+k6*AM-(k5+gp)*AMp); // AM:time=(k5*AMp-(k6+gx)*AM); // k1=(if ((time>(0 second)) and (time<(5 second))) (.35 first_order_rate_constant) else (.06 first_order_rate_constant)); k6=k1; gp2=(4*(fp1+gp1)); g2=(20*g1); g3=(3*g1); gp3=(3*gp1); }