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. 1988 Mar 1;250(2):415–420. doi: 10.1042/bj2500415

Evidence for distinct functional molecular sizes of carnitine palmitoyltransferases I and II in rat liver mitochondria.

V A Zammit 1, C G Corstorphine 1, M G Kelliher 1
PMCID: PMC1148872  PMID: 3355531

Abstract

1. Estimates of the functional sizes of the molecular species responsible for the overt (I) and latent (II) activities of carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) in 48 h-starved rat liver mitochondria were obtained from radiation inactivation experiments. 2. The decay in the activity of total CPT and that of CPT II only (after inhibition of CPT I) was measured in mitochondrial samples exposed to different doses of high-energy ionizing radiation. 3. The decay curves obtained by plotting residual activity of total CPT as a logarithm function of irradiation dose suggested the contribution of more than one target towards total CPT activity. 4. By contrast, in mitochondria in which CPT I activity was approximately 95% inhibited, the activity of CPT decayed in a simple mono-exponential manner. Target-size analysis yielded an approximate Mr of 69,700 for this component (CPT II). 5. This information, as well as that on the relative non-irradiated activities of CPT I and CPT II, was used in graphical and statistical methods to obtain the parameters of the decay curve for CPT I. These analyses yielded an approximate Mr of 96,700 for CPT I.

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