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  • Title: Identification of a crotoxin-binding protein in membranes from guinea pig brain by photoaffinity labeling.
    Author: Hseu MJ, Guillory RJ, Tzeng MC.
    Journal: J Bioenerg Biomembr; 1990 Feb; 22(1):39-50. PubMed ID: 2341382.
    Abstract:
    Crotoxin is a neurotoxic phospholipase A2 capable of blocking synaptic transmission by inhibiting the release of neurotransmitters. The photoaffinity labeling technique was used to identify the neural membrane molecules involved in the binding of crotoxin. A photoactivatable, radioactive derivative of crotoxin was synthesized by reacting crotoxin with N-hydroxysuccinimidyl-4-azidobenzoate and with Na[125I]. Photoirradiation of synaptosomes from guinea pig brains in the presence of the crotoxin derivative resulted in the formation of a major radioactive conjugate of 100,000 daltons as revealed by autoradiography of a sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic pattern. Pretreatment of the synaptosomes with trypsin, Staphylococcus aureus protease, or papain prevented the formation of this conjugate. The conjugate was not detected when plasma membranes from several nonneural tissues replaced the brain synaptosomes. Unmodified crotoxin inhibited the formation of this adduct with an IC50 of about 10(-8)M. Mojave toxin, caudoxin, notexin, Naja naja PLA, and taipoxin also inhibited adduct formation with different potencies, while beta-bungarotoxin and pancreatic PLA were ineffective. We concluded that an 85,000-dalton protein is the major component responsible for the binding of crotoxin to synaptosomal membranes.
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