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Ten male Wistar rats were intravenously injected with a single approximately physiological dose of enriched stable isotopic Cr-50 tracer solution (200 ng 50Cr3+/100 g body wt). The fundamental distribution patterns of the chromium-containing proteins in the nucleic, mitochondrial, lysosomal, microsomal, and cytosolic subcellular fractions of the rat liver were investigated by means of Sephadex G-100 gel chromatography combined with neutron activation analysis via 50Cr (n, γ) 51Cr reaction. In total, nine kinds of Cr-containing proteins were found in the five subcellular fractions, whose relative molecular masses were 96.6±6.2, 68.2±1.4, 57.9±4.7, 36.6±1.2, 24.2±1.8, 14.0±1.5, 8.8±0.6, 6.9±0.4, and 4.2±0.4 kDa. Approximately 64.5% of Cr proteins accumulated in the cytosolic fraction. The second enriched part was the nucleic fraction; about 12.2% Cr proteins were stored in this section. The 4.2-kDa molecular mass might contain the so-called low molecular weight chromium-containing substance; however, in this research, it was only observed in the mitochondria, lysosome, and microsome. In the mitochondrial fraction, most of the Cr proteins were present as relatively low molecular weight substances: about 56% of chromium-containing proteins had molecular masses ≤6.9 kDa. Nevertheless, more than 69% of Cr-containing proteins were observed with molecular masses ≥57.9 kDa in the liver cytosolic fraction.
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The authors are grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 19935020) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KJCX2-N10).
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Feng, W., Li, B., Liu, J. et al. Study of chromium-containing proteins in subcellular fractions of rat liver by enriched stable isotopic tracer technique and gel filtration chromatography. Anal Bioanal Chem 375, 363–368 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-002-1691-2
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