PMID: 429359May 10, 1979Paper

Characterization of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor isolated from goldfish brain.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
R E Oswald, J A Freeman

Abstract

We have studied the binding of alpha-bungarotoxin to a particulate fraction of goldfish brain enriched in synaptosomes. The binding is specific and saturable and exhibits the pharmacological properties of a nicotinic cholinergic receptor. Equilibrium binding measurements yield a single dissociation constant (KD) of 0.92 nM. Kinetic analysis revealed one association rate constant and two dissociation rate constants. Dissociation constants calculated from kinetic measurements were 1.9 nM and 12.5 pM. The toxin . receptor complex is readily solubilized in nonionic detergent. The isoelectric point of the toxin . receptor complex was found to be 5.00 +/- 0.01. Sedimentation velocity analysis in sucrose/H2O and sucrose/D2O gradients in conjunction with Sepharose 4B chromatography and diffusion experiments yielded a sedimentation constant of 11.45, a partial specific volume of 0.79 cm3/g for the toxin . receptor . detergent complex, and a molecular weight of approximately 340,000 for the toxin . receptor complex.

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