Studies on the permeability of calf thymus nuclei isolated in sucrose |
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Authors: | Kodama R M Tedeschi H |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physiology, University of Illinois, Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA. |
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Abstract: | A study of the permeability of calf thymus nuclei isolated in sucrose was carried out with sucrose-14C, glycerol-14C, and carboxydextran-14C (molecular weight, 60,000-90,000). The results indicate that the nuclei are very permeable to both sucrose and glycerol but they exclude the carboxydextran. Results obtained with other low molecular weight non-electrolytes (malonamide-14C, erythritol-14C, D-arabinose-14C, and D-mannitol-14C) are in agreement with the view that the nuclei are freely permeable to these molecular species. A sucrose-impermeable space is also present in these preparations and it has been attributed to the presence of intact cells. The high permeability of nuclei to sucrose was confirmed with Ficoll-separated preparations. The possibility of the presence of a substantial particulate space that allows the penetration of dextran cannot be excluded by these experiments, and this space may correspond to damaged nuclei. |
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