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. 1988 Mar;85(5):1686–1690. doi: 10.1073/pnas.85.5.1686

Effects of glycyl-L-glutamine in vitro on the molecular forms of acetylcholinesterase in the preganglionically denervated superior cervical ganglion of the cat.

G B Koelle 1, J Massoulié 1, D Eugène 1, M A Melone 1
PMCID: PMC279839  PMID: 3422756

Abstract

Normal and preganglionically denervated cat superior cervical ganglia were sectioned and cultured for 24 or 48 hr, with or without preliminary inactivation of acetylcholinesterase, and in the presence or absence of 10(-5) M glycyl-L-glutamine. They were then homogenized, and the molecular forms of acetylcholinesterase were analyzed by sucrose gradient sedimentation. We observed an increased proportion of the globular monomeric G1 form, and to a lesser extent of the dimeric G2 and tetrameric membranous G4 forms, of acetylcholinesterase in the glycyl-L-glutamine-treated compared with the control cultures. There was only a small increase in the total acetylcholinesterase activity and no significant variation in the activity of the metabolic enzyme lactate dehydrogenase. It therefore seems likely that glycyl-L-glutamine, or the endogenous neurotrophic factor, maintains acetylcholinesterase in the preganglionically denervated ganglia in vivo by specifically increasing the biosynthesis of the monomeric G1 form, but not that of other proteins; these trophic factors do not seem to promote the polymerization of G1 into the more complex G2 and G4 forms.

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