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Localization of Mitochondrial Carnitine/Acylcarnitine Translocase in Sensory Neurons from Rat Dorsal Root Ganglia (Articolo in rivista)
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- Localization of Mitochondrial Carnitine/Acylcarnitine Translocase in Sensory Neurons from Rat Dorsal Root Ganglia (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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- 2013-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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- 10.1007/s11064-013-1168-z (literal)
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- Annamaria Tonazzi o Cristina Mantovani o
Matilde Colella o Giorgio Terenghi o
Cesare Indiveri (literal)
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- A. Tonazzi (&)
CNR Institute of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics,
via Amendola165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
e-mail: a.tonazzi@ibbe.cnr.it
A. Tonazzi ? M. Colella
Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and
Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari ''Aldo Moro'',
via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
C. Mantovani ? G. Terenghi
Blond McIndoe Research Laboratory, Regenerative
Biomedicine, University of Manchester, Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PT, UK
C. Mantovani
Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences,
University of Milan, via Balzaretti 9, 20133 Milan, Italy
C. Indiveri
Unit of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department
of BEST (Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra), University
of Calabria, via P. Bucci 4-6C, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy (literal)
- Titolo
- Localization of Mitochondrial Carnitine/Acylcarnitine Translocase in Sensory Neurons from Rat Dorsal Root Ganglia (literal)
- Abstract
- The carnitine/acylcarnitine transporter is a
transport system whose function is essential for the mitochondrial
b-oxidation of fatty acids. Here, the presence of
carnitine/acylcarnitine carrier (CACT) in nervous tissue
and its sub-cellular localization in dorsal root ganglia
(DRG) neurons have been investigated. Western blot analysis
using a polyclonal anti-CACT antibody produced in
our laboratory revealed the presence of CACT in all the
nervous tissue extracts analyzed. Confocal microscopy
experiments performed on fixed and permeabilized DRG
neurons co-stained with the anti-CACT antibody and the
mitochondrial marker MitoTracker Red clearly showed a
mitochondrial localization for the carnitine/acylcarnitine
transporter. The transport activity of CACT from DRG
extracts reconstituted into liposomes was about 50 % in
respect to liver extracts. The experimental data here
reported represent the first direct evidence of the expression
of the carnitine/acylcarnitine transporter in sensory
neurons, thus supporting the existence of the b-oxidation
pathway in these cells (literal)
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