STUDIES ON MITOCHONDRIAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN PHYSARIUM-POLYCEPHALUM .1. FINE-STRUCTURE, CYTOCHEMISTRY, AND H-3-URIDINE AUTORADIOGRAPHY OF A CENTRAL BODY IN MITOCHONDRIA
STUDIES ON MITOCHONDRIAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN PHYSARIUM-POLYCEPHALUM .1. FINE-STRUCTURE, CYTOCHEMISTRY, AND H-3-URIDINE AUTORADIOGRAPHY OF A CENTRAL BODY IN MITOCHONDRIA
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-4827(73)90079-7
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
KUROIWA, T
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作者:
KUROIWA, T
MATERIALS AND METHODSSurface plasmodia after the second mitosis (Mll) were used in these experiments and were cultivated using a modification of the methods reported by Daniel and Rusch (14) and reviewed by Guttes and Guttes (15). Three plasmodia 4 cm in diameter during G2 phase were scraped from filter paper in a Petri dish into 30 ml of the control medium containing 0.25 M sucrose, 0.01 M CaC12, 0.01 M Tris buffer (pH 7.0 with HCI), and 0.1%(wt/vol) Triton X-100 (16). The suspension was homogenized for 30 s at 3,000 rpm in a 50-ml Waring blender cup. The foam was removed with a pipette. The homogehate was filtered by gravity through two thicknesses of nylon meshes with pores of 31# m (NBC Ind., Japan). 10 ml of the homogenate was layered over a discontinuous sucrose density gradient with sucrose concentrations ranging from 0.5 to 1.5 M, the difference between two adjacent sucrose solutions being 0.25 M. The tubes were centrifuged at 0 C for 30 min at 1,500 rpm (300 g) i1 a swinging bucket rotor with a Kokusan H-103 centrifuge. The mitochondria banded at the border between the 0.75 and 1.00 M sucrose layers. The mitochondrial fraction was then collected and the mitochondria were sedimented for 10 min at 3,000 rpm. The mitochondria were washed once by resuspending in 10 ml of 0.25 M sucrose solution followed by recentrifugation. The pellet was resuspended in 0.5 ml of distilled water. Isolated mitochondria were stained with a 0.2% aqueous solution of azure B and examined under the light microscope. Preparation of ultrathin sections of the plasmodia before isolation of the mitochondria or of the mitochondrial pellet was done by the procedure employed previously (1 I). Spread mitochondria preparations were made according to the procedures described previously (17). The mitochondria spread on the air-water surface were picked up on a carbon-coated grid, fixed in 0.2% glutaraldehyde in pH 6.8 phosphate buffer for 5 min at 4 C, and stained in 2%(wt/vol) phosphotungstic acid or in 0.02%(wt/vol) uranyl acetate for 10 min at room temperature.Enzymatic digestions were done on the mitochondria spread on the grid. The grids were transferred from fixative to acetate buffer at pH 6.8, rinsed in this buffer, and extracted at 34 C in:(a) 1 mg DNase (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo., electrophoretically pure, beef pancreas)/l. 0 ml 0.1 M acetate buffer containing 0.003 M magnesium acetate at pH 5.5 for 20 min,(b) 1 mg RNase (Sigma Chemical Co., five times crystallized,