“…Work from 1972 to 1988 showed that agents that relaxed catch (e.g., serotonin) increased muscle cAMP levels, and that chemical treatments that increased cAMP relaxed catch {Achazi, 1979 36504 /id; Köhler, 1980 36506 / id;Achazi, 1974 35209 /id;Cole, 1972 449 /id;Gies, 1986 36300 /id;Gies, 1988 23435 / id;Marchand-Dumont, 1975 36296 /id;Matsuura, 1984 480 /id;Painter, 1982 54 /id;Pfitzer, 1982 23455 /id}. Subsequent work isolated and characterized the regulatory and catalytic subunits of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (Cao et al, 1995a(Cao et al, ,b, 1996Rodríguez et al, 1998;Díaz-Enrich et al, 2003;Bardales et al, 2004;Béjar and Villamarín, 2006). The importance of protein phosphorylation was further emphasized by the observation that a calcineuron type phosphatase was required for catch (Castellani and Cohen, 1992).…”