“…Several MHC isoforms have been identified in mouse striated muscle, and their expression is restricted to a subset of muscle fibers. For example, slow-twitch type I fibers express slow MHC I (-cardiac myosin; Mahdavi et al, 1987;Saez and Leinwand, 1986) and the ATPase of MHC I is low compared with that of MHC isoforms expressed in fast-twitch fibers (reviewed in Schiaffino and Reggiani, 1996). Adult fast type II fibers express either MHC-2a, MHC-2b, or MHC-2x, which are associated with IIA, IIB, and IIX fibers, respectively, although individual fibers can express more than one MHC isoform (Staron and Pette, 1993).…”