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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 76, Issue 9 2415-2434, Copyright © 1998 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Changes in the calpains and calpastatin during postmortem storage of bovine muscle

M. L. Boehm, T. L. Kendall, V. F. Thompson and D. E. Goll
Muscle Biology Group, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA.

Changes in activity and protein status of micro-calpain, m-calpain, and calpastatin in bovine semimembranosus muscle during the first 7d of postmortem storage were monitored by using assays of proteolytic activity, SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and Western blot analysis. Extractable m-calpain activity changed slightly during the first 7d after death (decreased to 63% of at-death activity after 7d), whereas extractable calpastatin activity decreased substantially (to 60% of at-death activity after 1d and to 30% of at-death activity after 7d of postmortem storage) during this period. Extractable micro-calpain activity also decreased rapidly (to 20% of at-death activity at 1d and to less than 4% of its at-death activity at 7d after death) during postmortem storage. Western blot analysis showed that the 80-kDa subunit of m-calpain remained undegraded during the first 7d after death but that the 125- to 130-kDa calpastatin polypeptide was gone entirely at 7d after death. Hence, the calpastatin activity remaining at 7d originates from calpastatin polypeptides that are 42 kDa or smaller. The 80-kDa micro-calpain subunit was almost entirely in the 76-kDa autolyzed form at 7d after death; this form is proteolytically active in in vitro systems, and it is unclear why the postmortem, autolyzed micro-calpain is not active. Over 50% of total muscle micro-calpain is tightly bound to myofibrils 7d after death; this micro-calpain is also nearly inactive proteolytically. Unless postmortem muscle contains some factor that enables micro-calpain in this muscle to be proteolytically active, it is not clear whether micro-calpain could be responsible for any appreciable postmortem myofibrillar proteolysis.


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