title: Modulation of acetylcholine receptor by antibody against the receptor.
abstract: Antibody against acetylcholine receptor induces an increase in the rate of degradation of acetylcholine receptors on a mouse cell line (BC(3)H-1) and cultured rat skeletal muscle. The increased rate of degradation results in a lowered density of acetylcholine receptors on muscle membrane and a lowered sensitivity to iontophoretically applied acetylcholine. The modulation of acetylcholine receptor is energy, temperature, and time dependent and may be related to antigenic modulation found in other systems. Acetylcholine noise analysis demonstrates that antibody against acetylcholine receptor reduces the channel mean conductance and mean open time slightly. It is concluded that antibody binds to the acetylcholine receptor, impairs its function, and induces receptor degradation. This results in a lowered density of acetylcholine receptor and a lowered sensitivity to acetylcholine. Patients with myasthenia gravis have antibodies to their acetylcholine receptor in their serum. Antigenic modulation of receptor in the muscle of patients with myasthenia gravis could contribute to the observed decrease in amplitudes of miniature endplate potentials and in muscle acetylcholine sensitivity, and the symptoms of muscular weakness.
mesh_terms: D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000494:pharmacology; D000906:Antibodies; D000937:Antigen-Antibody Reactions; D001665:Binding Sites; D002038:Bungarotoxins / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D007700:Kinetics; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism*; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000276:immunology; D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D002038:Bungarotoxins; D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic; D000109:Acetylcholine
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