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Choline acetyltransferase

The absence of multiple forms and purification from mouse brain

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No multiple forms of choline acetyltransferase were found in extracts of human, mouse, rabbit, guinea pig, cat, and rat brain. A single form of this enzyme only was also demonstrated in bovine nervous tissue, including brain, dorsal and ventral roots, spinal cord, and femoral nerve. The difference from other published findings is believed to be due to ammonium sulfate fractionation, which was not used in the present study. In addition, multiple forms of the enzyme were obtained by others using isoelectric focusing, whereas this study employed gel filtration. Choline acetyltransferase was highly purified from mouse brain using a procedure similar to that used for the enzyme from bovine brain. The steps involved: (1) making an acetone-chloroform powder from whole mouse brains, (2) extracting the powder and chromatographing the soluble fraction with organomercurial Sepharose, (3) passing the enzyme solution through a column of DEAE-cellulose, (4) eluting from hydroxyapatite, and (5) removing contaminants by subunit exchange chromatography. The final preparation was essentially homogeneous as revealed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.

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Chao, LP. Choline acetyltransferase. Neurochem Res 3, 549–561 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00963758

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