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6693937

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-3-15
pubmed:abstractText
We have investigated the effect of electromechanical activity on the molecular forms of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in cultured embryonic rat myotubes. Both globular and asymmetric forms of AChE are present on the 5th day of culture when myotubes are just beginning to fibrillate. Between days 5 and 8, the 4 S (G1), 10 S (G4), and 16 S (A12) forms increase dramatically, and appreciable 12.5 S (A8) AChE appears. When fibrillation is prevented by adding tetrodotoxin on day 4, the increases in the A12 and A8 forms are prevented, and the increases in the G4 and G1 forms are significantly impaired. At 8 days, fibrillating myotubes have 19 times more A12 AChE and over 4 times more G1 and G4 enzyme than do nonfibrillating myotubes. The effect of tetrodotoxin is reversible. When tetrodotoxin is removed at 7 days, fibrillation resumes promptly, and globular and asymmetric forms recover. Light microscopic examination of fibrillating and nonfibrillating myotubes showed that tetrodotoxin does not affect the gross morphological development of the myotubes. Titration of AChE-active sites with O-ethyl-S2-diisopropyl methyl-phosphonothionate demonstrated that the increase in AChE activity associated with fibrillation is due to an increase in the number of AChE molecules present and not to an increase in the rate at which individual AChE molecules turn over acetylcholine. To evaluate AChE metabolism in fibrillating and nonfibrillating myotubes, we examined the enzyme after inactivating it with paraoxon. Paraoxon readily penetrates cells and diethylphosphorylates a serine in the active site of AChE, thereby inactivating it. The diethylphosphorylated enzyme is stable, but it can be reactivated rapidly and quantitatively with pyridine-2-aldoxime methiodide (2-PAM). After inactivating AChE with paraoxon, we simultaneously evaluated synthesis (by following the newly synthesized active AChE) and turnover (by following the 2-PAM-reactivatable AChE). Our results show that globular and asymmetric forms of AChE are both synthesized more rapidly in fibrillating than in nonfibrillating myotubes.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0270-6474
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
4
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
131-40
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
The effect of spontaneous electromechanical activity on the metabolism of acetylcholinesterase in cultured embryonic rat myotubes.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't