Sciatin: a myotrophic protein increases the number of acetylcholine receptors and receptor clusters in cultured skeletal muscle.
Sciatin: a myotrophic protein increases the number of acetylcholine receptors and receptor clusters in cultured skeletal muscle.
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Sciatin:一种肌营养蛋白,可增加培养骨骼肌中乙酰胆碱受体和受体簇的数量。
DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(82)90324-4
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发表时间:
1982
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Guth,L
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作者:
Markelonis,GJ;Oh,TH;Eldefrawi,ME;Guth,L
Factors present in neural extracts or in media conditioned by neurons have been shown by others to increase both the number of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) and the number of receptor clusters in cultures of embryonic skeletal muscle. We have recently shown that the glycoprotein,sciatin, exerts trophic effects on developing musclein vitro. In the present study, we investigated the effect of sciatin on AChRs in aneural cultures of chick skeletal muscle. Sciatin caused a significant increase in the number of AChRs/dish as measured by binding of125I-α-bungarotoxin (α-Btx) and in acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity/dish in differentiating muscle cells. The increase in AChRs elicited by sciatin was due solely to increased receptor synthesis and incorporation. The rate of AChR synthesis in sciatin-treated cultures was as much as five times the control rate and was significantly reduced by cycloheximide (10 μM). AChR degradation was unaffected by the myotrophic protein. Although the number of AChRs/dish was increased by sciatin during myogenesis, AChR specific activity, expressed as picomoles125I-α-Btx bound/mg cell protein, was only transiently increased by the myotrophic protein. This contrasted with AChE specific activity in sciatin-treated cultures which remained elevated throughout differentiation. Autoradiographs of125I-α-Btx-labeled cultures showed that sciatin caused an increase in the number and size of AChR “hot spots” and maintained the integrity of these AChR clusters in aneural muscle cultures for up to 5 weeks. At this time control cultures had completely degenerated. The mechanism by which sciatin enhanced the synthesis of AChRs appeared to be distinct from that of tetrodotoxin (TTX), an agent which abolishes muscle activity. However, like theophylline, sciatin might evoke increased synthesis of AChRs via regulation of cyclic AMP since the myotrophic protein increased cAMP both in cells and in conditioned medium. The results of this study suggest that sciatin may be related to the diffusible factor(s) from motor neurons described by others which has trophic effects on AChRs. Furthermore, we suggest that this myotrophic protein may be responsible for the clustering of AChRs and maintenance of receptor clusters at neuromuscular junctions in developing avian muscle.