The ultrastructural localization of alpha-bungarotoxin binding sites in relation to synapses on chick ciliary ganglion neurons - PubMed (original) (raw)

The ultrastructural localization of alpha-bungarotoxin binding sites in relation to synapses on chick ciliary ganglion neurons

M H Jacob et al. J Neurosci. 1983 Feb.

Abstract

The distribution of alpha-bungarotoxin binding sites on chick ciliary ganglion neurons was examined at the ultrastructural level by incubating ganglia with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated toxin and examining the peroxidase-stained and thin-sectioned ganglia with the electron microscope. Both in embryonic and in adult ganglia heavy labeling was restricted to the surface membrane of short processes emerging from the ciliary and choroid cell somata in the region of preganglionic innervation. Less dense labeling occasionally was present on the smooth surface membrane of the soma in the same region. In contrast, the pre- and postsynaptic membranes of most synapses were clearly not labeled even in the immediate vicinity of heavily labeled processes. The labeling represented specific binding of the toxin conjugate since it could be prevented by d-tubocurarine and hexamethonium or by unconjugated toxin. The conjugated toxin was not excluded from the synaptic cleft on the basis of size because a substantially larger protein conjugate, a horseradish peroxidase-labeled monoclonal antibody, was able to enter the cleft and heavily label synaptic membranes as well as soma membranes. Even neurons in adult ganglia had very little synaptic labeling after exposure to the conjugated toxin. These results strongly suggest that the high affinity alpha-bungarotoxin binding sites on chick ciliary ganglion neurons are different from the synaptic ACh receptors which would be expected to be concentrated in the postsynaptic membrane. Clustering of the alpha-bungarotoxin binding sites in the vicinity of synapses, however, may reflect a related synaptic function.

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The ultrastructural localization of alpha-bungarotoxin binding sites in relation to synapses on chick ciliary ganglion neurons - PubMed (original) (raw)