Exchangeability of Radioactive Acetylcholine with the Bound Acetylcholine of Synaptosomes and Synaptic Vesicles

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Journal Biochem J

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1968 Jan 1

PMID 5721474

Citations 19

Authors

R M Marchbanks

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Abstract

1. The exchangeability with added radioactive acetylcholine of the acetylcholine in isolated presynaptic nerve terminals (synaptosomes) and isolated synaptic vesicles was studied by a Sephadex-column method. 2. A substantial proportion of the synaptosomal acetylcholine is exchangeable with added radioactive acetylcholine. It is liberated by hypo-osmotic shock and ultrasonic treatment, and behaves as though it occupies the cytoplasmic compartment of synaptosomes. 3. Methods of isolating vesicles from hypo-osmotically ruptured synaptosomes in optimum yield are discussed. 4. The acetylcholine of synaptic vesicles isolated on a sucrose density gradient is released by hypo-osmotic conditions, suggesting that it is enclosed by a semi-permeable membrane; however, it is not easily released by ultrasonic treatment. 5. Added radioactive acetylcholine does not exchange with vesicular acetylcholine under a variety of different conditions. These include addition of ATP and Mg(2+), and pre-loading of the synaptosome with radioactive acetylcholine before hypo-osmotic rupture. This failure to exchange is discussed in terms of the possible storage mechanism of vesicular acetylcholine.

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