Identification and purification of the tricarboxylate carrier from rat liver mitochondria |
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Authors: | F Bisaccia A De Palma F Palmieri |
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Institution: | Department of Pharmaco-Biology, Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Bari, Italy. |
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Abstract: | The tricarboxylate carrier from rat liver mitochondria was solubilized with Triton X-100 and purified by chromatography on hydroxyapatite and celite. SDS-gel electrophoresis of the purified fraction showed a single polypeptide band with an apparent Mr of 30,000. When reconstituted into liposomes, the tricarboxylate transport protein catalyzed a 1,2,3-benzenetricarboxylate-sensitive citrate/citrate exchange. We obtained a 1070-fold purification with respect to the mitochondrial extract, the recovery was 22% and the protein yield 0.02%. The properties of the reconstituted carrier, i.e., requirement for a counteranion, substrate specificity and inhibitor sensitivity, were similar to those of the tricarboxylate transport system as characterized in intact mitochondria. |
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