Incorporation of amino acids into the protein of isolated mitochondria. A search for optimum conditions and a relationship to oxidative phosphorylation

Abstract

Most of the protein biosynthesis occurring in rat- liver cells takes place in the microsomes (Keller, Zamecnik & Loftfield, 1954), but some amino acid incorporation into protein also occurs in nuclei The amount of amino acid incorporation into protein which occurs in isolated mitochondria is very small compared with that found with microsomes