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It has been proposed that light chain phosphorylation causes individual cross-bridges to swing out from the myosin back-bone [ 5 ] , thereby bringing the actin binding site of the cross-bridge in close proximity to the actin filament.
During positive inotropy there is an increase in ATP utilization and thus myocardial oxygen consumption related to increased cross-bridge cycling and calcium handling [ 1 ] . Heat measurements of isolated heart muscle have assigned approximately 50% of total energy consumption to cross-bridge cycling and 20% to calcium cycling [ 2 ] . However, recently, studies in both isolated hearts and myocytes [ 3 4 ] , examining the energetic effects of increasing inotropy with the calcium sensitizing agent EMD 57033 have suggested that the energetic cost associated with increasing inotropy is largely related to calcium cycling.
This would increase the probability of cross-bridge binding to actin, resulting in a greater number of cross-bridges exerting force during the twitch contraction.