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The yeast cellsSaccharomyces cerevisiae grown up to stationary phase under either anaerobic conditions, or aerobic conditions in the presence of a respiratory inhibitor, antimycin A, had distinctive giant mitochondrial nucleoids (mt-nucleoids) (apparent diameter 0.6–0.9 μm) in contrast with the small mt-nucleoids (apparent diameter 0.2–0.4 μm) in respiratory-sufficient cells grown aerobically, as revealed by DAPI-fluorescence microscopy. The cytoplasmic respiratory-deficient cells (rho− cells), which were induced by treatment of wild-type cells with ethidium bromide, showed both giant and small mt-nucleoids of irregular size. In order to examine the structural and functional differences between giant and small mt-nucleoids, the former were successfully isolated from spheroplasts of three different cells by differential centrifugation and centrifugation on a discontinuous sucrose gradient. The isolated giant mt-nucleoids were intact in the morphology and were free of significant contamination by nuclear chromatin. The number of protein components involved in each of three different giant mt-nucleoids was similar to the number in small mt-nucleoids from aerobically grown cells, though a few noticeable differences were also recognized. DNA-binding proteins with molecular masses of 67 kDa, 52 kDa, 50 kDa, 38 kDa, 26 kDa, and 20 kDa were the main components of small mt-nucleoids from aerobically grown cells as detected by chromatography on native DNA-cellulose. In contrast, the 67 kDa and 52 kDa proteins were hardly detected in corresponding fractions of giant mt-nucleoids from anaerobically grown cells and from rho− cells grown aerobically. On the other hand, mt-nucleoids from aerobically grown cells in the presence of antimycin A seemed to lack the 67 kDa protein but to have a small amount of the 52 kDa protein. This is the first demonstration of the variance of protein species involved in yeast mt-nucleoids according to the respiratory activity of mitochondria.
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Shiiba, D., Fumoto, S.I., Miyakawa, I. et al. Isolation of giant mitochondrial nucleoids from the yeastSaccharomyces cerevisiae . Protoplasma 198, 177–185 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01287567
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