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The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol 25, 69-80, Copyright © 1965 by Rockefeller University Press

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MORPHOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CORRELATES OF CEREBRAL MICROSOMES : I. Isolation and Chemical Characterization



F. de Balbian Verster 1, O. Z. Sellinger 1, and J. C. Harkin 1

1 From the Department of Biochemistry, the Nutrition and Metabolism Research Laboratory of Medicine, and the Department of Pathology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dr. de Balbian Verster's present address is Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Sellinger's present address is Department of Biochemistry, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay

Microsomal fractions, both homogeneous in appearance and functionally operative, were isolated from a homogenate of rat cerebral cortex by fractionation in water. The preparations thus obtained contain the membranous elements of the endoplasmic reticulum, synaptic vesicles, and ribosomes. Esterase, ATPase, and glutamine synthetase were found to be present and fully functional in the microsomal fractions isolated in water. The contamination of the water-isolated microsomal fractions by mitochondria and lysosomes was found to be considerably lower than in microsomal pellets isolated in sucrose. The contamination by nerve ending particles, as judged by electron microscopy and by the levels of soluble lactic dehydrogenase entrapped in the cytoplasm of the particles, was also low. Most of the contamination by mitochondria and nerve ending particles could be removed by treatment of the microsomal pellet with 150 mM NaCl. Resistant to elution by this treatment is the lysosomal contamination as well as microsomal esterase and ATPase. Glutamine synthetase, on the other hand, was almost totally solubilized. Microsomal preparations isolated in water are also shown to contain amounts of protein, RNA, phospholipid, and ganglioside comparable to those found in microsomal preparations isolated in sucrose.

Submitted on June 4, 1964


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