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  • Title: Acetylcholinesterase is regulated by action potential generation and not by muscle contractile activity per se in mouse muscle in vitro.
    Author: Powell JA, Rieger F, Holmes N.
    Journal: Neurosci Lett; 1986 Aug 04; 68(3):277-81. PubMed ID: 3748455.
    Abstract:
    Dysgenic (mdg/mdg) skeletal muscle of the mouse, grown in primary cell culture, fires action potentials in the absence of contractions, thus allowing analysis of the role of electrical activity (without contraction) on the specific activity and molecular forms of acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Specific activity of AChE was assessed by the spectrophometric method of Ellman (Biochem. Pharmacol., 7 (1961) 88-95) and found to increase by 2-5 times in the active myotubes (contraction and action potentials in normal and action potentials, alone in dysgenic muscle) compared to quiescent muscle. Sucrose density sedimentation analysis of muscle homogenates revealed an increase, by 2-3 times, in the proportion of the asymmetric (16S) molecular form of AChE in active muscle of both genotypes. Thus, electrical membrane activity, and not contraction per se, is directly involved in the regulation of levels of specific activity of and accumulation of the asymmetric (16S) form of AChE in muscle cells in culture.
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