Excitation Contraction Coupling in SMOOTH Muscles || Its DIFFERENT than in Skeletal Muscle

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Excitation Contraction Coupling in Smooth Muscles:
The calcium for smooth muscle contraction, comes from extracellular fluid, as well as sarcoplasmic reticulum.
Inside the cell, the calcium binds with calmodulin, and then this calcium-calmodulin complex activates myosin light chain kinase.
This enzyme phosphorylates the regulatory light chain of myosin, which restore the ATPase activity of the myosin head.
This allows the myosin cross-bridge cycle, producing muscle contraction.
To reverse the process, the calcium is pumped back into the extracellular fluid, and sarcoplasmic reticulum.
This inactivates myosin light chain kinase.
And the phosphate from the regulatory light chain, is removed by myosin phosphatase.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:19 Entry of Calcium in Cytoplasm
01:57 Calmodulin
02:23 Myosin Light Chain Kinase
03:01 Cross Bridge Cycle
03:30 Termination of Contraction
04:25 Summary

Dr Vipul Navadiya

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