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M Thelen and M Baggiolini
Theodor-Kocher Institute, University of Berne, Switzerland.
A rapid centrifugal elutriation procedure was developed to prepare high
amounts of pure human blood monocytes. After disruption by nitrogen
cavitation, a cytosol and a membrane fraction were obtained by sucrose-
Percoll density centrifugation. The plasma membrane fraction contained
cytochrome b558 and was free of microsomal or mitochondrial cytochromes as
determined by low-temperature absorbance spectroscopy. Cell-free
NADPH-oxidase activity from monocytes and neutrophils was reconstituted
with cytosol and membranes in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate. By
comparison with neutrophils, the cell-free NADPH-oxidase from monocytes
showed a two- to threefold lower specific activity. The NADPH- oxidase was
reconstituted with neutrophil membranes and monocyte cytosol, and vice
versa. The Km for NADPH was always lower when monocyte cytosol was used.
These experiments indicate that the membrane- bound components of the
NADPH-oxidase from neutrophils and monocyte are similar and that levels of
NADPH-oxidase components in the cytosols differ. Interferon gamma-treatment
of the monocytes had no effect on the specific activity of the cell-free
NADPH-oxidase.
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