Dissection of the 66 000-dalton subunit of the acetylcholine receptor.

The 66 000-dalton or delta subunit of the acetylcholine receptor from Torpedo marmorata was covalently labeled in the presence of carbamoylcholine by 5-azido [3H]trimethisoquin (5-A[3H]T), a photoaffinity derivative of the local anesthetic trimethisoquin. After the attack of purified receptor with increasing concentrations of trypsin, the delta chain successively yielded fragments with apparent molecular weights of 50 000 (distinct from the beta subunit and referred to as the 50 000-bis (fragment), 49 000, and 47 000. With nondenatured (sodium cholate solubilized or membrane-bound) receptor, the 47 000-dalton fragment was not sensitive to trypsin and contained all of the covalent 5-A[3H]T label. This fragment was still glycosylated and had the same amino acid N terminus, valine, as the intact delta chain. A specific in vitro phosphorylation site of the delta subunit was located between the 49 000- and 50 000-dalton trypsin cleavage fragment and most likely is exposed to the cytoplasmic side of the membrane. A 16 000-dalton fragment of the delta chain was identified, which carriers a disulfide bond (or bonds) capable of cross-linking nonreduced receptor 9S monomerse into 12S dimers. The fragment did not remain associated with the receptor molecule after trypsin treatment.

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