Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 73, Issue 6 2713-2716, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Adaptation of rat skeletal muscle to creatine depletion: AMP deaminase and AMP deamination

J. M. Ren and J. O. Holloszy
Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.

AMP deaminase catalyzes deamination of the AMP formed in contracting muscles to inosine 5'-monophosphate (IMP). Slow-twitch muscle has only approximately 30% as high a level of AMP deaminase activity as fast-twitch muscle in the rat, and rates of IMP formation during intense contractile activity are much lower in slow-twitch muscle. We found that feeding the creatine analogue beta-guanidinopropionic acid (beta-GPA) to rats, which results in creatine depletion, causes a large decrease in muscle AMP deaminase. This adaptation was used to evaluate the role of AMP deaminase activity level in accounting for differences in IMP production in slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscles. beta-GPA feeding for 3 wk lowered AMP deaminase activity in fast-twitch epitrochlearis muscle to a level similar to that found in the normal slow-twitch soleus muscle but had no effect on the magnitude of the increase in IMP in response to intense contractile activity. Despite a similar decrease in ATP in the normal soleus and the epitrochlearis from beta-GPA-fed rats, the increase in IMP was only approximately 30% as great in the soleus in response to intense contractile activity. These results demonstrate that the accumulation of less IMP in slow- compared with fast-twitch skeletal muscle during contractile activity is not due to the lower level of AMP deaminase in slow-twitch muscle.

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