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Mouse liver microsomes were prepared by repeated washing, homogenization, and centrifugation until almost no more soluble enzymes were found in the supernatant of the last centrifugation. About 0.09% of the total glutathione S-transferase activity and comparable amount of soluble enzymes were detected in microsomes solubilized with Emulgen 913. By double immunodiffusion, microsomal glutathione S-transferases were shown to have a complete immunological identity with cytosolic F2 and F3 transferase from mouse liver. By Sephadex gel filtration chromatography in 1% Emulgen 913, part of the microsomal transferase activity (20 to 50%) was shown to be associated with the microsomal membrane protein fraction and appeared in the void volume. Partially purified microsomal transferases were found to have molecular weights, isoelectric points and Km's for substrate and GSH which are comparable to those of soluble liver transferases. This study seems to suggest that the presence of glutathione S-transferases in microsomes is the result of specific and nonspecific association between the microsomal membrane and soluble liver transferases.
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Gregory Lee, CY., McKinney, J.D. Identity of microsomal glutathione-S-transferases. Mol Cell Biochem 48, 91–96 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00227609
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