BIOSC 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Creatine Kinase, Phosphocreatine, Skeletal Muscle

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Note that one of the uses is not energy related. ) Contraction of skeletal muscle is a very energetically expensive process. The amount of atp present in a skeletal muscle fiber at rest is sufficient to sustain only a few twitches. [definition: a twitch is the contraction of a muscle fiber associated with a single action potential. ] However, energy is also stored in two other forms: phosphocreatine and metabolic substrates like glucose and glycogen. With phosphocreatine, the high-energy phosphate bond from atp is transferred to creatine by the enzyme creatine kinase (more typically called creatine phosphokinase (cpk). Stored phosphocreatine can support muscle contraction for only a few seconds. After that, most atp is derived from muscle glycogen stores. After about 30 minutes, the muscle is dependent upon fuel supply from blood. (slide 1) [question: what would happen to muscle if it ran out of atp?] [remember that atp is also needed to the maintenance of the membrane potential in muscle fibers. ]

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