The subcellular localization of ubiquinone in human neutrophils.
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ABSTRACT: Ubiquinone-10 has recently been proposed as a component of the microbicidal oxidase system of neutrophil leukocytes [Crawford & Schneider (1982) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 6662-6668]. We have determined the subcellular localization of ubiquinone and could detect it only in the mitochondrial fractions. It was not enriched in phagolysosomes which were enriched in O2-. generating activity and cytochrome b-245. It is proposed that ubiquinone is unlikely to play a direct role in the electron transport chain located in the plasma membrane which functions to produce microbicidal oxygen radicals.
SUBMITTER: Cross AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1152573 | biostudies-other | 1983 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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