Purification of acetylcholine receptors from the muscle of Electrophorus electricus

Biochemistry. 1983 Aug 2;22(16):3796-800. doi: 10.1021/bi00285a013.

Abstract

Muscle from the electric eel Electrophorus electricus contains acetylcholine receptors at 50 times the concentration of normal mammalian muscle and fully one-tenth the concentration of receptors in its electric organ tissue. Receptor is organized much more diffusely over the surface of Electrophorus muscle cells than is the case in normally innervated mammalian skeletal muscle. Receptor was purified from Electrophorus muscle by affinity chromatography on cobra toxin-agarose and found to contain subunits which correspond immunochemically to the alpha, beta, gamma, and delta subunits of receptor from electric organ tissue of Torpedo californica. Receptor purified from Electrophorus muscle appears virtually identical with receptor purified from Electrophorus electric organ tissue.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Electric Organ / metabolism
  • Electrophorus
  • Fluorescent Antibody Technique
  • Iodine Radioisotopes
  • Macromolecular Substances
  • Molecular Weight
  • Muscles / metabolism*
  • Receptors, Cholinergic / isolation & purification*
  • Receptors, Cholinergic / metabolism
  • Species Specificity
  • Torpedo

Substances

  • Iodine Radioisotopes
  • Macromolecular Substances
  • Receptors, Cholinergic