Carrier-mediated inhibition of choline acetyltransferase |
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Authors: | B.Jane Rylett E.Howard Colhoun |
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Affiliation: | Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C1 |
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Abstract: | Incubation of rat forebrain synaptosomes with choline mustard aziridinium ion in a sodium-rich medium caused a time-dependent inhibition of the high-affinity transport of choline, as well as a significant decrease in intrasynaptosomal choline acetyltransferase activity. In the absence of added sodium choline uptake by a sodium-independent mechanism was also blocked in a time-dependent manner but intrasynaptosomal choline acetyl-transferase activity was unaltered. Neither monoethylcholine nor hemicholinium-3 changed intrasynaptosomal choline acetyl-transferase activity but competitively inhibited the transport of choline. The results indicate that there may be a fraction of choline acetyltransferase that is closely associated with the sodium-dependent high-affinity choline transport system and that this fraction can be irreversibly inhibited by choline mustard aziridinium ion, perhaps indirectly mediated by alkylation of the carrier. |
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