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  • The riddle of mitochondrial caspase-3 from liver
    Milisav, Irina ; Nipič, Damijan ; Šuput, Dušan
    Caspase-3 is one of the main executors of apoptosis. Its zymogen procaspase-3 was localized to cytosol, mitochondria and nuclei. The subcellular location ofprocaspase-3 in liver was reported by ... several studies to be either cytosolicor cytosolic and mitochondrial. Our aim was to investigate these separate procaspase-3 pools to differentiate the pathways of their activation.By cell fractionation, immunocytochemistry, and confocal microscopywe report that there is a single procaspase-3 pool located to the cytosol in primary hepatocytes and in fractions of rat liver. In contrast, it depends on the isolation purity whether procaspase-3 is located in mitochondria of non-parenchymal liver cells, or not. All preparations with mitochondrial procaspase-3 fractions contain traces of haemoglobin, indicatingthe presence of some erythrocytes, which are the source of mitochondrial procaspase-3. Since erythrocytes migrate with mitochondria in subcellular fractionations, it is important to check for haemoglobin, before localizing the protein to mitochondria.
    Source: Apoptosis. - ISSN 1360-8185 (Letn. 14, št. 9, 2009, str. 1070-1075)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2009
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 25835993
    DOI

source: Apoptosis. - ISSN 1360-8185 (Letn. 14, št. 9, 2009, str. 1070-1075)
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