Muscle and smooth muscle contraction processes cannot be overlooked as they may correlate with some of the cytoskeleton changes and with motility.
Triads couple the excitation of the sarcolemma and T-tubules with the release of calcium from the SR leading to muscle contraction, a process named excitation contraction (EC) coupling.
In this study, RNA-seq analysis was used to determine the effects of handling stress on the skeletal muscle of the red cusk-eel, revealing 952 DETs associated with an up-regulation of catabolic biological processes or a down-regulation of skeletal muscle contraction biological processes.
Ca2+ is a well-known second messenger involved in many signal transduction cascades in cells and tissues co-ordinating muscle contraction, transport processes, cell division and growth and enzyme activities (Berridge, 2005; Clapham, 2007).
Breed horses showed an enrichment of genes in coding regions involved in cell communication, lipid metabolic process, neurological system process, muscle contraction, ion transport and developmental processes of the nervous system and ectoderm.
Muscle tissue morphogenesis and development, cell differentiation and development, regulation of muscle contraction and developmental process were enriched significantly in early embryo development.
Conversely, 167 transcripts were down-regulated under stressed conditions in association with biological processes such as muscle contraction and muscle system processes.
The adipose-brown module is enriched with 21 genes of the GO biological process muscle contraction.
For gene modules that are downregulated in only SCLC, they are enriched with diverse functions, such as asthma, regulation of immune system process, muscle contraction, and fatty acid metabolism.
Other processes that were overrepresented in this subset are muscle contraction and several metabolic processes.
