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Thermal perturbation studies of membrane-bound acetylcholine receptor from Torpedo: effects of cholinergic ligands and membrane perturbants.

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:Thermal perturbation techniques have been used to probe structural features of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChR). The information obtained from differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of AcChR membranes (M.C. Farach and M. Martinez-Carrion (1983) J. Biol. Chem. 258, 4176) in the absence and in the presence of cholinergic ligands and local anesthetics, is comparable to that obtained from a simpler technique of heat inactivation of the alpha-bungarotoxin (alpha-Bgt) binding sites on the AcChR protein in similar samples. When AcChR membranes are heated at approximately 1 degree C/min, heat inactivation of toxin binding sites has a characteristic T50 value (temperature at which 50% of the initial capacity to bind alpha-Bgt remains) of approximately 60 degrees C. When heated at a constant temperature during increasing periods of time, the rate at which heat inactivation occurs is also characteristic of the temperature chosen for the experiment. The above thermal parameters are also sensitive to perturbation of the AcChR membrane matrix by the presence of subsolubilizing concentrations of detergents. Moreover, elimination of detergents by dialysis allows us to evaluate the reversibility or irreversibility of AcChR thermal destabilization induced by detergents or other membrane perturbants. Under the experimental conditions used, structural destabilization induced by octylglucoside or cholate can be fully reversed by detergent dialysis, while that exerted by deoxycholate cannot. "Thermal gel" analysis of the aggregation of AcChR subunits induced by heat (G. Soler, J. R. Mattingly, and M. Martinez-Carrion (1984) Biochemistry 23, 4630) has also been used to assess the effects of detergent presence on the AcChR protein. When deoxycholate is used as the perturbing agent, there is a particularly effective sulfhydryl-mediated aggregation of the gamma-delta subunit group, which appears to correlate with the irreversible destabilization of alpha-Bgt binding sites induced by that detergent.

journal_name

Arch Biochem Biophys

journal_title

Archives of biochemistry and biophysics

authors

Artigues A,Villar MT,Ferragut JA,Gonzalez-Ros JM

doi

10.1016/0003-9861(87)90319-5

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1987-10-01 00:00:00

pages

33-41

issue

eissn

0003-9861

issn

1096-0384

pii

0003-9861(87)90319-5

journal_volume

258

pub_type

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Thermal perturbation studies of membrane-bound acetylcholine receptor from Torpedo: effects of cholinergic ligands and membrane perturbants.