Suspensions of purified yeast mitochondria were analyzed under bubbling oxygen by 31P NMR at 161.9 MHz. The recorded spectra indicate that polyphosphates (poly(P)) are present in mitochondrial preparations. These poly(P) further characterized by the NMR study of mitochondrial perchloric acid extracts have an average chain length of 14 ± 1 residues per chain and correspond to 10% of the total content of cellular poly(P) detected by NMR. The stability of mitochondrial poly(P) was increased by the presence of oligomycin, suggesting that this compound may play a role in the energetic metabolism of yeast mitochondria.
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