Dokl Biochem Biophys, 2020, 491(1):81-84

Atypical Acetylcholine Receptors on the Neurons of the Turkish Snail.

Using electrophysiology, the effect of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) ligands on acetylcholine-induced depolarization in the neurons of Helix lucorum snail was studied. It was found that the α-conotoxin PnIA [R9, L10], a selective antagonist of α7 nAChR, and α-cobratoxin (antagonist of α7 and muscle-type nAChR) suppressed neuronal depolarization. Fluorescence microscopy showed staining of the neurons with fluorescently labeled α-bungarotoxin; this staining was reduced by pretreatment with α-cobratoxin. Induced depolarization was also suppressed by α-conotoxin RgIA, a selective inhibitor of α9 nAChR. In contrast to Lymnaea stagnalis nAChR, which are weakly sensitive to neurotoxin II and α-conotoxin GI, antagonists of muscle-type nAChR, H. lucorum receptors were most effectively inhibited by these antagonists. The results obtained, as well as the previously found sensitivity of the receptors studied in this work to muscarinic receptor ligands, indicate an unusual atypical pharmacological profile of H. lucorum nAChR.

Pivovarov AS, Palikhova TA, Nikolaev GM, Velikanov AN, Vasilieva NA, Kasheverov IE, Utkin YN, Tsetlin VI

IBCH: 8606
Ссылка на статью в журнале: http://link.springer.com/10.1134/S1607672920020118
Кол-во цитирований на 11.2024: 2
Данные статьи проверены модераторами 2020-06-06

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