Identification of a heparan sulphate-containing proteoglycan as a specific core component of cholinergic synaptic vesicles from Torpedo marmorata.
AUTOR(ES)
Stadler, H
RESUMO
Cholinergic synaptic vesicles isolated from the electric organ of Torpedo marmorata were found to contain a proteoglycan in their core. The glycosaminoglycan part co-migrates upon thin layer electrophoresis with heparan sulphate and shows a chemical composition characteristic for this carbohydrate. [35S]Sulphate injected into the electric lobes of Torpedo, which contain the perikarya of the electromotor neurons innervating the electric organs, appeared 48 h later in covalently bound form in the synaptic vesicle fraction. The radiolabel had been incorporated into the vesicular heparan sulphate. Upon SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis fluorography of labelled vesicles a major and a minor band are formed both migrating above a protein standard of mol. wt. 200 000. Similarly, a major peak in the void volume and a minor peak in the included volume are seen upon gel filtration in Ultrogel AcA 34 in the presence of SDS. We interpret the minor fraction as being formed by the loss of glycosaminoglycan from the major fraction. The proteoglycan is located inside the vesicle since antibodies directed against it form immunoprecipitates only with vesicles lysed by detergent treatment. The experiments show that it is possible to label a synaptic organelle specifically by axonal transport.
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