Description
Condensation of oxaloacetate with acetyl-CoA yields citrate as an entry into the TCA cycle. CS is located in the mt-matrix. CS activity is frequently used as a functional marker of the amount of mitochondria (mitochondrial elementary marker, mtE) for normalization of respiratory flux.
Abbreviation: CS
Reference: MiPNet17.04 CitrateSynthase
Normalization of respiratory flux for CS as a mitochondrial marker
Communicated by Gnaiger Erich last update 2020-04-19
- Respiration of living or permeabilized cells, tissue homogenate or permeabilized tissue, and isolated mitochondria can be normalized for CS activity. Then marker-specific oxygen flux, JO2/CS [pmol∙s-1∙IU-1], is a quantitative measure of respiration that reflects mitochondrial quality, independent of mitochondrial density.
- Several publications in peer-reviewed journals report respiration normalized for CS activity in units which do not make sense, e.g. [pmol∙s-1∙mL-1∙IU-1], such that those numerical results are pointless. Clarification is obtained by strict definitions of normalization of rates [1] and dimensional analysis, summarized in MiPNet 17.04 [2].
- Gnaiger E, Aasander Frostner E, Abdul Karim N, Abdel-Rahman EA, Abumrad NA, Acuna-Castroviejo D, Adiele RC, et al (2019) Mitochondrial respiratory states and rates. MitoFit Preprint Arch doi:10.26124/mitofit:190001.v6. - »Bioblast link«
- Eigentler A, Draxl A, Gnaiger E (2020) Laboratory protocol: Citrate synthase a mitochondrial marker enzyme. Mitochondr Physiol Network 17.04(04):1-11. - »Bioblast link«
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Enzyme