title: Studies on isolated subcellular components of cat pancreas. I. Isolation and enzymatic characterization.
abstract: Pancreas of the cat was fractionated into its subcellular components by centrifugation through an exponential ficoll-sucrose density gradient in a zonal rotor. This enables a preparation of four fractions enriched in plasma membranes, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria and zymogen granules, respectively. The first fraction, enriched by 9- to 15-fold in the plasma membrane marker enzymes, hormone-stimulated adenylate cyclase, (Na+K+)-ATPase, and 5'-nucleotidase, is contaminated by membranes derived from endoplasmic reticulum but is virtually free from mitochondrial and zymogen-granule contamination. The second fraction from the zonal gradient shows only moderate enrichment of the above marker enzymes but contains a considerable quantity of plasma membrane marker enzymes and represents mostly rough endoplasmic reticulum. The third fraction contains the bulk of mitochondria and the fourth mainly zymogen granules as assessed by electron microscopy and marker enzymes for both mitochondria and zymogen granules, namely succinic dehydrogenase, trypsin and amylase. Further purification of the plasma membrane fractions by differential and sucrose step-gradient centrifugation yields plasma membranes enriched 40-fold in basal and hormone-stimulated adenylate cyclase and (Na+K+)-ATPase.
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000378:metabolism; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000378:metabolism; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001081:Apyrase / Q000378:metabolism; D002415:Cats; D002458:Cell Fractionation / Q000379:methods*; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000201:enzymology; D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D002501:Centrifugation, Zonal; D003594:Cytoplasmic Granules / Q000201:enzymology; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000201:enzymology; D004792:Enzyme Precursors; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000201:enzymology; D009251:NADPH-Ferrihemoprotein Reductase / Q000378:metabolism; D009708:Nucleotidases / Q000378:metabolism; D010179:Pancreas / Q000201:enzymology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013347:Subcellular Fractions / Q000201:enzymology; D013385:Succinate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004792:Enzyme Precursors; D013385:Succinate Dehydrogenase; D009251:NADPH-Ferrihemoprotein Reductase; D009708:Nucleotidases; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D001081:Apyrase; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases