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  • Title: Characterization of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors on cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells using modified L-[3H]nicotine binding assay.
    Author: Lee K, Miwa S, Koshimura K, Ito A.
    Journal: Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol; 1992 Apr; 345(4):363-9. PubMed ID: 1620238.
    Abstract:
    To characterize the properties of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in autonomic ganglia, we examined L-[3H]nicotine binding to membrane fraction prepared from cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells, using a modified filtration method. Binding of L-[3H]nicotine to non-treated glass fiber filters interfered with the detection of specific binding to the membrane fraction. Presoaking glass fiber filters in 3% or higher concentrations of polyethyleneimine (PEI) solution (sixty times higher than earlier used concentration) for at least 5 h could reduce the binding of L-[3H]nicotine to the filters to the background level. Specific L-[3H]nicotine binding to the membrane fraction was detected only when the membrane fraction was prepared in Ca(2+)-and Mg2+ (EDTA, EGTA and protease inhibitors were added) -free buffer. Specific binding of L-[3H]nicotine was saturable and reversible. Both computer program and Scatchard analysis revealed a single class of high affinity binding sites with an average Kd of 8.9 nM and a Bmax of 42.5 fmol/mg protein. The Hill coefficient was 0.98. In inhibition studies, both cholinergic agonists (carbachol and L-nicotine) and ganglionic agonists (lobeline and 1,1-dimethyl-4-phenylpiperazinium iodide) were much effective in inhibiting L-[3H]nicotine binding, whereas both neuromuscular blocking (alpha-bungarotoxin and d-tubocurarine) and ganglionic blocking agents were less effective. These results suggest that high affinity nicotinic binding sites on adrenal chromaffin cells are nAChRs of the ganglion-type, which have properties different from nAChRs on the neuromuscular junction but similar to nAChRs in the brain.
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