Purification of a [3H]dihydrotetrabenazine-binding protein from bovine adrenal medulla

MS Vincent and JA Near

Pharmacology Section, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington 47405.

A high affinity binding site for [3H]dihydrotetrabenazine is thought to be present on the monoamine transport protein from chromaffin granules. We describe a procedure for purification of this binding activity from frozen bovine adrenal tissue, and we partially characterize the purified preparation. Binding activity solubilized with sodium cholate and soybean lecithin was fractionated on wheat germ lectin-Sepharose, phenyl-Sepharose, Mono Q, and hydroxylapatite. Denaturing electrophoresis of the purified binding activity, followed by silver staining, revealed a single broad band centered at an apparent molecular weight of 85,000. This preparation bound [3H]dihydrotetrabenazine with an apparent dissociation constant of 2.7 nM and had a site density of 10 nmol/mg. Treatment of the purified protein with neuraminidase reduced the apparent molecular weight by 9000, indicating the presence of terminal sialic acids on the oligosaccharide portion of this molecule.

Volume 40, Issue 6, pp. 889-894, 12/01/1991
Copyright © 1991 by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

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