Bioanalysis of Eukaryotic Organelles

This review highlights the role that organelle analysis has played in understanding biology. In defining this, we took into consideration the types of organelles that have been of interest in recent reports, other reviews dealing with topics related to subcellular analysis, and the time period covered by such reviews. Table 1 lists important features of organelles that are the subject of recent subcellular analysis reports and that are reviewed here. Because subcellular isolation procedures based on centrifugation are included in the majority of subcellular analysis methods published to date, we chose not to describe details on centrifugation that are used in many of the reports reviewed here.