Research Article

Early Changes in Costameric and Mitochondrial Protein Expression with Unloading Are Muscle Specific

Table 2

Altered transcript expression with muscle unloading. Mean percentage of post- versus prechanges in GAPDH-standardized mRNA levels in VL and SOL muscle within 3 days of ULLS. values of Wilcoxon tests are given with values and changes with ≤ 0.05 are indicated in bold.

VL valueSOL value

UBB9.4 ± 11.6%0.05816.6 ± 26.5%0.379
UBC36.1 ± 29.0%0.09352.0 ± 22.0%0.011
PSMA235.1 ± 24.5%0.04654.9 ± 32.0%0.010

SDHA0.2 ± 10.0%0.465−17.3 ± 9.2%0.359
ATP5A1−5.7 ± 6.5%0.028−25.3 ± 10.3%0.006
UQCRC16.8 ± 14.5%0.3453.6 ± 19.2%0.534
NDUFA917.3 ± 11.2%0.09130.1 ± 44.7%0.529

FAK17.6 ± 22.9%0.07519.1 ± 27.2%0.158