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Isolation of endoplasmic reticulum fractions from mammary epithelial tissue

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In the mammary glands of lactating animals, the mammary epithelial cells that surround the lumen of the acini produce and secrete copious amounts of milk. Functional differentiation of these mammary epithelial cells depends on the development of high-efficiency secretory pathways, notably for protein and lipid secretion. Protein secretion is a fundamental process common to all animal cells that involves a subset of cellular organelles, including the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus. In contrast, en masse secretion of triglycerides and cholesterol esters in the form of milk fat globules is a unique feature of the mammary epithelial cell. Cytoplasmic lipid droplets, the intracellular precursors of milk fat globules, originate from the endoplasmic reticulum, as do most milk-specific proteins. This organelle is therefore pivotal in the biogenesis of milk components. Fractionation of the cell into its subcellular parts is an approach that has proven very powerful for understanding organelle function and for studying the specific role of an organelle in a given cell activity. Here we describe a method for the purification of both smooth and rough microsomes, the membrane-bound endoplasmic reticulum fragments that form from endoplasmic reticulum domains when cells are broken up, from mammary gland tissue at lactation.
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hal-01455900 , version 1 (03-02-2017)

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Eric Chanat, Annabelle Le Parc, Hichem Lahouassa, Bouabid Badaoui. Isolation of endoplasmic reticulum fractions from mammary epithelial tissue. Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia, 2016, 21 (1), pp.1-8. ⟨10.1007/s10911-016-9351-x⟩. ⟨hal-01455900⟩
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