Abstract
Spectrophotometric analysis of metabolic enzyme activity from homogenized tissues is a valuable method for investigating mitochondrial content and capacity. Enzyme activity is normally measured in single cuvette spectrophotometers, requiring a large sample volume and low throughput. Here, we describe microplate assays for high-throughput analysis of mitochondrial enzymes citrate synthase, β-hydroxyacyl CoA dehydrogenase, aconitase, and mitochondrial electron transport system (ETS) complexes I, II, III, and IV.
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Janssen, R.C., Boyle, K.E. (2019). Microplate Assays for Spectrophotometric Measurement of Mitochondrial Enzyme Activity. In: D'Alessandro, A. (eds) High-Throughput Metabolomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1978. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9236-2_22
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