Protein Information

Name acetylcholine receptor (protein family or complex)
Synonyms Acetylcholine receptor; Acetylcholine receptors

Compound Information

Name mercuric chloride
CAS

Reference List

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12130716 Mirzoian A, Luetje CW: Modulation of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by mercury. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2002 Aug;302(2):560-7.

Mercuric chloride exerted a biphasic modulatory effect on rat neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes as heteromers of the alpha3 or alpha4 and beta2 or beta4 subunits.
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18439770 Vidal L, Duran R, Faro LR, Alfonso M: Involvement of nicotinic and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors on striatal HgCl2-induced dopamine release in freely moving rats. Toxicol Lett. 2008 May 30;178(3):181-4. Epub 2008 Mar 21.

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15885266 Basu N, Stamler CJ, Loua KM, Chan HM: An interspecies comparison of mercury inhibition on muscarinic acetylcholine receptor binding in the cerebral cortex and cerebellum. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2005 May 15;205(1):71-6.

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9089697 Egorova A, Hoshi N, Knijnik R, Shahidullah M, Hashii M, Noda M, Higashida H: Sulfhydryl modification inhibits K+ (M) current with kinetics close to acetylcholine in rodent NG108-15 cells. Neurosci Res. 1997 Jan;27(1):35-44.


The effects of sulfhydryl reagents on M-type voltage-dependent potassium currents (IK (M)) were examined in NG108-15 cells transformed to express ml muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs), a NGPM1-27 clone.
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7641227 Fejtl M, Gyori J, Carpenter DO: Mercuric (II) chloride modulates single-channel properties of carbachol-activated Cl- channels in cultured neurons of Aplysia californica. Cell Mol Neurobiol. 1994 Dec;14(6):665-74.


Inorganic Hg2+ affects the acetylcholine receptor at lower concentrations than previously reported.
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18036150 Lobo IA, Harris RA, Trudell JR: Cross-linking of sites involved with alcohol action between transmembrane segments 1 and 3 of the glycine receptor following activation. J Neurochem. 2008 Mar;104(6):1649-62. Epub 2007 Nov 23.

Application of cross-linking (mercuric chloride) or oxidizing (iodine) agents had no significant effect on the glycine response of wild-type receptors or the single mutants.
Molecular modeling was used to thread the glycine receptor sequence onto a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor template, further demonstrating that I229 and A288 are near-neighbors that can cross-link and providing evidence that these residues contribute to a single binding cavity.
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15045580 Miller TJ, Grow WA: Mercury decreases the frequency of induced but not spontaneous clustering of acetylcholine receptors. Cell Tissue Res. 2004 May;316(2):211-9. Epub 2004 Mar 25.

Specifically, we asked whether the inorganic metal mercury interfered with the fusion of myoblasts into myotubes, acetylcholine receptor (AChR) clustering, or the agrin signaling events that precede AChR clustering.
C2C12 myotubes grown in culture medium containing 10 microM mercuric chloride were morphologically indistinguishable from control myotubes at the light-microscopic level, and myoblasts fused into myotubes normally.
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