Purification of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria by zone electrophoresis in a free flow device

Methods Mol Biol. 2008:432:51-64. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-028-7_4.

Abstract

This chapter describes the isolation of yeast mitochondria by differential centrifugation followed by mitochondrial purification through zone electrophoresis (ZE) using a free flow device (FFE). Starting from a yeast colony, cultures are grown under respiratory conditions to logarithmic phase. Cells are collected, their cell walls enzymatically disintegrated and the resulting spheroplasts are homogenized. Mitochondria are pre-fractionated from this homogenate by differential centrifugation. With the focus on further purification, pre-fractionated mitochondria are subjected to ZE-FFE. In ZE-FFE, mitochondria are transported with the buffer flow through the separation chamber and purified from contaminants by specific deflection through a perpendicularly oriented electric field. The purified mitochondria can be collected by centrifugation and used for further experiments and analysis such as sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), immunoblotting, 2-DE or electron microscopy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adenosine Triphosphatases / isolation & purification
  • Animals
  • Carrier Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Centrifugation / methods
  • Electron Transport Complex III / isolation & purification
  • Electron Transport Complex IV / isolation & purification
  • Horses
  • Immunoblotting
  • Membrane Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Mitochondria / chemistry*
  • Mitochondria / ultrastructure*
  • Mitochondrial Proton-Translocating ATPases
  • Mutation
  • Oxidative Phosphorylation*
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / enzymology
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / genetics*
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / ultrastructure*
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Ubiquinone / analogs & derivatives

Substances

  • Carrier Proteins
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
  • Ubiquinone
  • Electron Transport Complex IV
  • Adenosine Triphosphatases
  • Mitochondrial Proton-Translocating ATPases
  • Electron Transport Complex III
  • oligomycin sensitivity-conferring protein
  • ubiquinol