BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to optimize the electrophoretic conditions that should be used for the effective isolation of functional human spermatozoa and to determine whether this method of isolating cells was associated with oxidative stress and DNA damage. METHODS Human spermatozoa were prepared by repeated centrifugation, discontinuous density gradient centrifugation and elec...

Because of their intrinsic low buoyant density, chitosomes can be separated from crude cell homogenates (1000 g or 35,000 g supernatants) of Mucor rouxii by isopycnic sedimentation in sucrose density gradients. To accelerate and simplify the isolation of chitosomes, we centrifuged the cell-free extracts at ultrahigh speed (in a fixed-angle rotor at forces up to 311,000 g Rav) and found that the...

The isolated, formaldehyde-fixed nucleoid of E. coli has been analyzed by isopycnic centrifugation in CsCl density gradients. The membrane-free nucleoid bands at a density of 1.69 +/- 0.02 g/cm3. The membrane-associated nucleoid bands at a density of 1.46 +/- 0.02 g/cm3. Both species sediment to equilibrium as nearly monodisperse bands in CsCl, suggesting that the nucleoid components of DNA, RN...

Subcellular fractions of the electric tissue of the main organ of the eel Electrophorus electricus were prepared in sucrose media by differential centrifugation and differential discontinuous gradient centrifugation. The distributions of acetylcholinesterase, cytochrome oxidase, DNA, and protein were determined. The appearance of the fractions was determined by phase contrast microscopy and by ...

Large amounts of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) in the mammalian duodenum are found mainly in the enterochromaffin cells. Baker (1) was the first to demonstrate that in the enterochromaffin cells of the dog's duodenal mucosa, 5-HT was stored in large granules which were sedimented in the gravitational field used for the sedimentation of mitochondria. By further equilibrium centrifugation in a sucro...

In this study we present data on the entire population of MUC2 molecules secreted from and within the cell layer of an intestinal cell line. The molecular size distribution of the extracted molecules and their reactivity with two different MUC2 polypeptide antibodies indicated the presence of precursor and mature forms of the mucin. Oligomerized forms of the mucin were found in both the cell la...

Buoyant density gradient centrifugation has been used to separate bacteria from complex food matrices, as well as to remove compounds that inhibit rapid detection methods, such as PCR, and to prevent false-positive results due to DNA originating from dead cells. Applying a principle of buoyant density gradient centrifugation, we developed a method for rapid separation and concentration followin...