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. 1991 Feb;11(1):191–201. doi: 10.1007/BF00712809

Two types of asymmetric acetylcholinesterase in chick hindlimb muscle: Developmental profiles,in Vivo and in cell culture, and recovery after inactivation

Xavier Busquets 1, Jordi Pérez-Tur 1, Paula Rosario 1, Galo Ramírez 1,✉
PMCID: PMC11567367  PMID: 2013057

Abstract

  1. We have analyzed the behavior of two types of asymmetric molecular forms (A forms) of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) during development of chick hindlimb muscle,in vivo and in cell culture, and upon irreversible inactivation of peroneal muscle AChE with diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP)in vivo.

  2. In agreement with previous developmental studies on chick muscle, globular forms of AChE (G forms) are predominant in chick hindlimb at early embryonic ages, being gradually replaced by A forms as hatching (and, therefore, onset of locomotion) approaches. Of the two A-form types, AI appears and accumulates significantly earlier than AII, so that A/G and II/I ratios higher than 1 are attained only at about hatching time.

  3. Cultures prepared from 11-day chick embryo hindlimb myoblasts express both types of A forms, with a combined activity of 27% of total AChE after 12 days in culture. AI forms appear again earlier and are much more abundant than type II asymmetric species through the life span of cultures.

  4. All AChE activity in the peroneal muscle is irreversibly inactivated by injection of DFPin vivo. The recovery of A forms follows the same sequence described for normal development, with a delayed and slower recovery of AII forms as compared with AI.

  5. Several hypotheses involving tail polypeptides or tissue target molecules, or posttranslational interconversion, are proposed to help explain the earlier appearance and accumulation of AI forms in chick muscle.

Key words: acetylcholinesterase, asymmetric-form types, chick hindlimb muscle, development, cell culture, diisopropylfluorophosphate inactivation

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