Syncytiotrophoblast membrane vesicles: a model for examining the human placental cholinergic system

Teratology
M E Fant, R D Harbison

Abstract

A membrane vesicle preparation was used to examine characteristics of the human placental cholinergic system. Plasma membrane vesicles were prepared from the microvillous surface of the human placental syncytiotrophoblast. Membranes were purified 18 -to 20-fold as indicated by 5'-nucleotidase activity. Vesicle cholinesterase activity was enriched and had a substrate preference consistent with that of acetylcholinesterase (acetylcholine greater than acetyl-beta-methylcholine greater than butyryl-choline). Choline acetyltransferase specific activity was reduced 80%. The synthetic muscarinic ligand, [3H]-quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB), was used to identify two classes of muscarinic cholinergic binding sites. The dissociation constant of QNB binding was 80 pM and 30 nM for the two sites. The sites were saturable and bound 9 fmoles and 910 fmoles per mg protein for the high and low affinity sites, respectively. Specific binding was inhibited by scopolamine, atropine, carbamylcholine (CCH), and diphenhydramine, but not by non-muscarinic ligands-i.e. GABA, glycine, d-amphetamine, kappa-bungarotoxin and nicotine. The cholinergic agonist CCh had no effect on active AIB transport, although pharmacologic doses (lmM) of atropine, scopolamin...Continue Reading

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