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Muscarinic receptor stimulation induces translocation of an alpha-synuclein oligomer from plasma membrane to a light vesicle fraction in cytoplasm.

The close correspondence between the distribution of brain alpha-synuclein and that of muscarinic M1 and M3 receptors suggests a role for this protein in cholinergic transmission. We thus examined the effect of muscarinic stimulation on alpha-synuclein in SH-SY5Y, a human dopaminergic cell line that expresses this protein. Under basal conditions, alpha-synuclein was detected in all subcellular compartments isolated as follows: plasma membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, and two vesicle fractions. The lipid fractions contained only a 45-kDa alpha-synuclein oligomer, whereas the cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions contained both the oligomer and the monomer. This finding suggests alpha-synuclein exists physiologically as a lipid-bound oligomer and a soluble monomer. Muscarinic stimulation by carbachol reduced the alpha-synuclein oligomer in plasma membrane over a 30-min period, with a concomitant increase of both the oligomer and the monomer in the cytoplasmic fraction. The oligomer was associated with a light vesicle fraction in cytoplasm that contains uncoated endocytotic vesicles. The carbachol-induced alteration of alpha-synuclein was blocked by atropine. Translocation of the alpha-synuclein oligomer in response to carbachol stimulation corresponds closely with the time course of ligand-stimulated muscarinic receptor endocytosis. The data suggest that the muscarine receptor stimulated release of the alpha-synuclein oligomer from plasma membrane, and its subsequent association with the endocytotic vesicle fraction may have a role in muscarine receptor endocytosis. We propose that its function may be a transient release of membrane-bound phospholipase D2 from alpha-synuclein inhibition, thus allowing this lipase to participate in muscarinic receptor endocytosis.[1]

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