title: Association of monoamine oxidase and malate dehydrogenase with liver peroxisomes of genetically obese (ob/ob and db/db) mice.
abstract: 1. Liver post-nuclear supernatants (PNS) from genetically obese (ob/ob and db/db), lean (+/?), and albino mice were fractionated by dual centrifugation in B-XIV zonal rotors and subcellular fractions were analysed by marker-enzyme estimations and by electron microscopy. 2. Rate-dependent banding of PNS yielded a peroxisome-enriched region (PER) well-separated from mitochondria. 3. Density-dependent banding of PER in ob/ob and db/db mice only, yielded purified peroxisomes which were associated with malate dehydrogenase (cytosolic) and monoamine oxidase. 4. Markers for the mitochondrial matrix, intermembrane space and inner membrane compartments were absent from the peroxisomes. 5. The experimental results are interpreted as indicating that peroxisomes of genetically obese mice are either altered so that protein import is imprecise or so that their attachment to mitochondria is more extensive.
authors.affiliation: School of Applied Sciences, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, U.K.
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.forename: V U
authors.initials: VU
authors.lastname: Nwosu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Silcox
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Burdett
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Connock
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015415:Biomarkers; D002458:Cell Fractionation; D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D005260:Female; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008291:Malate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008820:Mice, Obese; D008830:Microbodies / Q000201:enzymology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008995:Monoamine Oxidase / Q000378:metabolism*; D009765:Obesity / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D008291:Malate Dehydrogenase; D008995:Monoamine Oxidase