Subcellular fractionation of brown adipose tissue

Wiley - Tập 11 Số 4 - Trang 445-449 - 1979
Jean-Paul Giacobino1
1Département de Biochimie Médicale, 20, rue Ecole de Médecine, Université de Genève, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland

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AbstractThe present study proposes a technique, using Metrizamide, which permits the preparation of brown adipose tissue plasma membranes from the crude mitochondria as well as from the crude microsome fraction. These plasma membranes have high relative specific activities of their marker enzyme, 5′‐nucleotidase (15 ± 3 and 14 ± 2 respectively) and, particularly those originating in the crude microsomes, are relatively free of mitochondria contamination. This study also shows the influence of the mode of cell disruption on microsome integrity. When cell disruption was achieved by grinding in liquid nitrogen the purified microsome NADPH cytochrome c reductase specific activity was found to be 3.5 times greater than that of microsomes obtained after homogenization of the tissue.

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