FREE-FLOW ELECTROPHORETIC SEPARATION AND ELECTRICAL SURFACE PROPERTIES OF SUBCELLULAR PARTICLES FROM GUINEA PIG BRAIN
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- 1 May 1971
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 49 (2), 235-246
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.49.2.235
Abstract
Continuous free-flow electrophoretic separation has been used to obtain relatively pure preparations of synaptosomes and synaptic vesicles from crude fractions of guinea pig brain homogenates. Measurements of the contents of protein, neuraminic acid, and bound acetylcholine; the activities of succinic dehydrogenase, adenosine triphosphatase, choline acetylase, and 5'-nucleotidase; and the uptake of (14)C-labeled choline arid acetylcholine in the presence and absence of hemicholinium, all confirm the electron microscope evidence that the electrophoretic preparations are at least as pure as those obtained by ultracentrifugal methods. The electrophoretic mobility measurements have been used to calculate zeta potentials and surface charge densities for these particles.Keywords
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