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Table 2 Purity analysis of the yield of sub-compartmental marker proteins

From: A simple protocol for the subcellular fractionation of skeletal muscle cells and tissue

Fraction/Marker

Myoblasts

Myotubes

AT Tissue

Nuclei/Histone H3 (%)

92.7 ± 1.3

86.4 ± 1.4

88.0 ± 0.9

Cyto/GAPDH (%)

92.4 ± 0.5

93.9 ± 1.4

87.8 ± 0.3

Mito/CoxIV (%)

85.6 ± 0.9

92.1 ± 0.5

91.2 ± 0.1

  1. The percentage shown in the table is obtained by the ratio between OD values of Histone H3, GAPDH and CoxIV (all n = 5, mean ± SEM) in an individual target compartment divided by the sum of the OD values present in all compartments in each sample.