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dc.contributor.advisor | Gerber, G. E. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wrona, Lynne | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-10T15:39:04Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-10T15:39:04Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1982-09 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/20786 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p> The mitochondrial inner membrane is highly selective with regard to permeability to solutes and the movement of a large number of large or charged molecules across it therefore requires specific transport processes provided by specific membrane proteins. </p> <p> In order to study the spatial arrangement of one such protein the adenine nucleotide translocator protein which transports ADP and ATP across the mitochondrial inner membrane, a number of chemical labelling studies of the mitochondrial inner membrane were carried out. </p> <p> Mitochondrial inner membrane preparations of normal (mitoplasts) and inverted (submitochondrial particles) config~ration with respect to mitochondria have been isolated and the external phosphatidylethanolamine and proteins modified by 3H isethionyl acetimidate. An upper limit of 40-46% of the total PE in mitoplasts was found to be located in the external monolayer. </p> <p> Differences in protein labelling patterns of isethionyl acetimidate modified mitochondria and SMP was observed. JAI was found to penetrate the outer membrane but not the inner membrane of intact mitochondria. </p> <p> A tritiated photoreactive phospholipid, 1 palmitoyl-2-(mdiazirinophenoxynonanoyl) phosphatidylcholine (DAP-PC) was incorporated into mitoplasts and submitochondrial particles symmetrically into both monolayers by sonication and asymmetrically using phospholipid exchange protein isolated from beef heart. Photolysis yielded the translocator as a major crosslinked product in both types of particles and with both methods of incorporation. </p> <p> It was shown that the adenine nucleotide translocator can be asymmetrically labelled by modification of membrane.particles of opposite orientation by water soluble and membrane soluble probes. </p> | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | mitochondria | en_US |
dc.subject | inner membrane | en_US |
dc.subject | asymmetry | en_US |
dc.subject | biochemistry | en_US |
dc.title | Asymmetry of the Mitochondrial Inner Membrane | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Biochemistry | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Science (MSc) | en_US |
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