| Literature DB >> 6320799 |
A R Cross, O T Jones, R Garcia, A W Segal.
Abstract
Ubiquinone-10 has recently been proposed as a component of the microbicidal oxidase system of neutrophil leukocytes [Crawford & Schneider (1982) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 6662-6668]. We have determined the subcellular localization of ubiquinone and could detect it only in the mitochondrial fractions. It was not enriched in phagolysosomes which were enriched in O2-. generating activity and cytochrome b-245. It is proposed that ubiquinone is unlikely to play a direct role in the electron transport chain located in the plasma membrane which functions to produce microbicidal oxygen radicals.Entities:
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Year: 1983 PMID: 6320799 PMCID: PMC1152573 DOI: 10.1042/bj2160765
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem J ISSN: 0264-6021 Impact factor: 3.857