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Enzymatic and functional heterogeneity of lysosomes

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Applying various preparation methods regarded as optimal for histochemical localization of enzymes in unfixed tissues, the following concordant results were obtained after demonstration of acid phosphatase, β glucuronidase and acid-β-galactosidase activities in rat livers sampled at four typical time-points of a 24 h-period (10:00, 16:00, 22:00, 04:00).

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    The lysosomes revealed with these marker enzymes differ with respect to their location within the liver lobules, their average number, size and reactivity during the 24 h-period.

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    Extralysosomal activities also vary depending on the time of day. This is a normal and cytogenetically explicable event and not the consequence of an inadequate technique, and argues for a dual localization of lysosomal enzymes in the cell.

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    The chemical heterogeneity of the lysosomes and extralysosomal enzymes is obviously an expression of functionally different populations of lysosomes. In addition to the differences in location and average number, the variations in activity do not occur synchronously, but are phase-shifted.

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    Veronika Groh & Heinz von Mayersbach

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Groh, V., von Mayersbach, H. Enzymatic and functional heterogeneity of lysosomes. Cell Tissue Res. 214, 613–621 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00233500

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