Figure 4.
Gel retardation study. The same amounts of mitochondrial proteins (26 μg μl−1) from amoeba cubic mitochondria and mice liver mitochondria were incubated with the same amount of ODN (0.1 μg μl−1) molecules. The mitochondria with cubic membrane organization are able to retard ODN mobilization (lane 2) towards the positive pole when compared with the same amount of pure ODNs (lane 1) and ODNs incubated with isolated mice liver mitochondria (lane 3). The results illustrate a representative experiment of at least three other times with similar findings, showing one of the duplicate samples.