
%0 Journal Article
%A Smillie, RM 
%T Enzymic Activities of Sub-Cellular Particles from Leaves III. Centrifugal Fractionation and Characterization of Particles in Homogenates of Green Leaves
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1956/09/01
%V 9
%N 3
%P 347-354
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9560347
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9560347 
%X Homogellatos of greon poa leaves have been fractionated difforential oentrifugation. fractions so obtained examined mieroscopioally and assayed for total nitrogen, deoxyribo-, and ribonuclcic acid, stareh. chlorophyll contonj",s, sueeinic dehydrogenase, slwcinoxidase. (t-ketoglntarate cytochrome reductase, cytochrome oxidase. and their oxidative p!JosplJOl'.VJatiOtl adivity. amI photolytic capacity. These studies l'o\'oalod tho pl'osmwe of highly-significant numbers ofbiochomioally-act,ivc mitochondria am! smalJer, non-oxidativo partic!os, containing cytochromo reductase. Both pal't,iclc types were distinet from ehlol'oplasts, or, ehloroplast fragments. The onzyme clistl'iblltiollS almost, identical with those found for e{,jojnted leaves rovealing basic similarity bohvcen dark- and light·grown leaf coils. 
