Peripheral proteins of postsynaptic membranes from Torpedo electric organ identified with monoclonal antibodies.

Author:

Froehner S C

Abstract

Highly purified postsynaptic membranes from Torpedo electric organ contain the acetylcholine receptor as well as other proteins. To identify synapse-specific components, we prepared monoclonal antibodies (mabs) to proteins extracted from the membranes with either lithium diiodosalicylate or alkaline treatment. 10 mabs specific for three different proteins were obtained. Seven mabs reacted with a major 43,000-mol-wt protein (43K protein). This protein is composed of isoelectric variants (pl = 7.2-7.8) and each of the mabs reacted with all of the variants. Analysis of these mabs by competition for binding to 43K protein and by reaction with proteolytic fragments of 43K protein in immunoblots showed that they recognize at least five different epitopes. Two mabs reacted with a protein of 90,000 mol wt (90K protein) and one with a protein of 58,000 mol wt composed of isoelectric variants (pl = 6.4-6.7) (58K protein). The 43K and 58K proteins appeared to co-purify with the receptor-containing membranes while the 90K protein did not. Immunofluorescence experiments indicated that the anti-43K mabs bind to the innervated face of Torpedo electrocytes and that a component related to the 43K protein is found at the rat neuromuscular junction. The anti-58K mab stained the innervated face, although rather weakly, while the anti-90K mabs reacted intensely with the non-innervated membrane. Thus, the 43K protein and possibly also the 58K protein are synaptic components while the 90K protein is predominantly nonsynaptic.

Publisher

Rockefeller University Press

Subject

Cell Biology

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