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. 1988 Jan 1;249(1):231–237. doi: 10.1042/bj2490231

Enzymes of carnitine acylation. Is overt carnitine palmitoyltransferase of liver peroxisomal carnitine octanoyltransferase?

M J Healy 1, J Kerner 1, L L Bieber 1
PMCID: PMC1148689  PMID: 3342008

Abstract

Liver mitochondria prepared by differential centrifugation are contaminated by significant quantities of peroxisomes and microsomal fractions. 'Easily solubilized carnitine palmitoyltransferase' prepared from liver mitochondria is thought to originate from the outer surface of the mitochondrial inner membrane. We have characterized the carnitine palmitoyltransferase activities of freeze-thaw extracts of rat liver mitochondrial preparations. Chromatography on Sephadex G-100 yields two broad peaks of carnitine decanoyltransferase activity: one eluted at the end of the void volume, which can be removed (precipitated) by ultracentrifugation; the second peak represents the soluble activity and is eluted at an Mr near 70,000. The activity in the soluble peak is precipitated by an antibody raised against carnitine octanoyltransferase purified from mouse liver peroxisomes. In contrast, antibody raised against carnitine palmitoyltransferase purified from liver mitochondrial membranes had no effect (P. Brady & L. Brady, personal communication). The carnitine acyltransferase activities of the Mr-70,000 peak in the presence or absence of Tween 20 showed maximum activity with decanoyl-CoA and about one-third of this activity with palmitoyl-CoA, similar to peroxisomal carnitine octanoyltransferase. These data show that 7500 g preparations of liver mitochondria isolated by differential centrifugation are enriched by peroxisomal carnitine octanoyltransferase (approx. 20% of the protein of the fraction is peroxisomal) and indicate that this enzyme may be the one reported as 'overt' or 'easily solubilized' mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase.

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