Abstract
Acetylcholine receptor was purified by affinity chromatography from denervated rat hemidiaphragms that had been incubated in organ culture for 24 hr in medium containing [35-S] methionine. Radioactive acetylcholine receptor was identified in purified preparations by zone sedimentation in a sucrose gradient, by isoelectric focusing, and by precipitation with an antiserum to the acetylcholine receptor from electric eel. When innervated and denervated hemidiaphragms were incubated with [35-S] methionine in organ culture, and the acetylcholine receptors from each were purified separately, only the preparation from denervated muscles contained radioactive receptor as determined by zone sedimentation. We conclude that newly synthesized receptor is accumulated as a result of muscle denervation.
MeSH Terms
Acetylcholine/metabolism
Animals
Binding Sites
Bungarotoxins
Centrifugation, Zonal
Chromatography, Affinity
Methionine/metabolism
Muscle Denervation
Muscle Proteins/biosynthesis,isolation & purification
Muscle, Smooth/metabolism,physiology
Polyethylene Glycols
Precipitin Tests
Protein Binding
Rabbits/immunology
Rats
Receptors, Cholinergic
Chemicals
Bungarotoxins
Muscle Proteins
Receptors, Cholinergic
Polyethylene Glycols
Methionine
Acetylcholine
Authors & Affiliations
2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Brockes J P
Hall Z W
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