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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 21.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2005 Mar;55(5):1566–1578. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04493.x

Table 2.

Analysis of cellular materials associated with acidocalcisomes.

Ca2+
(µg per mg protein)		 Zn2+
(µg per mg protein)		 Short chain PP
(nmol per mg protein)		 Long chain PP
(nmol per mg protein)
WT 0.38 ± 0.04 0.39 ± 0.12 8.67 ± 0.74 25.8 ± 3
Spt2− 0.27 ± 0.10 0.83 ± 0.12 8.57 ± 2.39 0.58 ± 0.17
Spt2−/+SPT2 0.34 ± 0.10 0.37 ± 0.09 6.67 ± 1.49 27.3 ± 6

Assays were performed using whole cell extracts from stationary phase promastigotes. Results shown are the average of three experiments ± standard deviation.

PP, polyphosphate.