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Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) isozyme patterns were analysed by polyacrylamide (PAA) slab gel electrophoresis in extracts prepared from various rabbit skeletal muscles of defined fibre composition and by PAA microelectrophoresis of microdissected, histochemically typed single muscle fibres. The results obtained by electrophoresis of whole muscle extracts generally agreed with the data obtained from single fibre electrophoresis, i.e. the LDH isozyme pattern corresponded to that of the predominant fibre type. Type I Fibres from soleus and semitendinosus muscles were characterized by a unique pattern of all 5 LDH isozymes with a predominance of LDH-1, 2 and 3. The major fraction (80%) of the type II fibres from extensor digitorum longus and tibialis anterior muscles contained only LDH-5 (M4). About 20% of the type II fibres contained in addition to LDH-5 small amounts of LDH-4 and LDH-3. The fraction of fibres containing LDH-5, LDH-4, and LDH-3 was similar (ca. 20%) in the histochemically defined IIA and IIB subpopulations In view of the fact that the major fractions of rabbit IIB fibres display low and of IIA fibres high aerobic oxidative capacities (Reichmann and Pette 1982), these data indicate that the expression of the H-subunit of LDH is not correlated with the aerobic-oxidative capacity of the fibre. It also appears not to be correlated with the presence of different myosin isoforms in IIA and IIB fibres.
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Leberer, E., Pette, D. Lactate dehydrogenase isozymes in type I, IIA and IIB fibres of rabbit skeletal muscles. Histochemistry 80, 295–298 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00495780
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