This work was supported by grants from the CIHR and the NSERC of Canada. V.I.T. is a CIHR New Investigator and Concordia University Research Chair in Genomics, Cell Biology and Aging.

Materials and methods
Yeast strains and growth conditions
The wild-type strain BY4742 (MAT&alpha; his3&Delta;1 leu2&Delta;0 lys2&Delta;0 ura3&Delta;0) was grown in rich YEPD medium (1% yeast extract, 2% peptone, 2% glucose). Cells were cultured at 30&deg;C with rotational shaking at 200 rpm in Erlenmeyer flasks at a "flask volume/medium volume" ratio of 5:1.
Isolation of crude mitochondrial fraction
<ol>
<li>Grow 1 L of the wild-type strain BY4742 culture for 48 h.</li>
<li>Pour culture in 500-ml Nalgene centrifuge tubes. Balance the load and harvest cells by centrifugation for 5 min at 3000 x g at room temperature.</li>
<li>Decant supernatant and resuspend pelleted cells in 250 ml of dH2O. Pellet cells by centrifugation for 5 min at 3000 x g at room temperature.</li>
<li>Decant supernatant and resuspend pelleted cells in 250 ml of dH2O. Pellet cells by centrifugation for 5 min at 3000 x g at room temperature.</li>
<li>Determine wet weight of cell pellet.</li>
<li>Resuspend pelleted cells in DTT buffer [2 ml of buffer/g (wet weight) cells].</li>
<li>Transfer the cell suspension to 50-ml Falcon plastic tubes.</li>
<li>Rotate the tubes at 70 rpm in a shaker for 20 min at 30&deg;C. </li>
<li>Harvest cells by centrifugation for 5 min at 3000 x g at room temperature.</li>
<li>Resuspend pelleted cells in Zymolyase buffer without Zymolyase [7 ml of buffer/g (wet weight) cells].</li>
<li>Pellet cells by centrifugation for 5 min at 3000 x g at room temperature. </li>
<li>Resuspend pelleted cells in Zymolyase buffer without Zymolyase [7 ml of buffer/g (wet weight) cells].</li>
<li>Transfer cell suspension to a glass flask. </li>
<li>Add the powder of Zymolyase-100T [1 mg of Zymolyase-100T/ g (wet weight) cells] to the cell suspension.</li>
<li>Rotate the flask with cell suspension at 70 rpm in a shaker for 30 min at 30&deg;C. </li>
<li>Transfer spheroplasts formed due to the digestion of the cell wall with Zymolyase-100T to 50-ml plastic centrifuge tubes.</li>
<li>Pellet spheroplasts by centrifugation for 8 min at 2200 x g at 4&deg;C.</li>
</ol>
**All subsequent steps should be carried out at 4&deg;C or on ice. Suspensions of spheroplasts should be handled gently using pipettes with cut tips to avoid breaking organelles.**
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<li>Resuspend pelleted spheroplasts in ice-cold homogenization buffer [6.5 ml of buffer/g (wet weight) cells].</li>
<li>Pellet spheroplasts by centrifugation for 8 min at 2200 x g at 4&deg;C.</li>
<li>Resuspend pelleted spheroplasts in ice-cold homogenization buffer [6.5 ml of buffer/g (wet weight) cells].</li>
<li>Transfer cells to a pre-chilled on ice glass homogenizer.</li>
<li>Using a tight pestle, homogenize the cells by making 15 strokes of the pestle.</li>
<li>Add 1 volume of ice-cold homogenization buffer.</li>
<li>Transfer homogenized spheroplasts to 50-ml plastic centrifuge tubes. </li>
<li>Pellet unbroken cells, nuclei, and large debris by centrifuging for 5 min at 1500 x g at 4&deg;C.</li>
<li>Centrifuge the resulting supernatant for 5 min at 3000 x g at 4&deg;C.</li>
<li>Centrifuge the resulting supernatant for 15 min at 12000 x g at 4&deg;C.</li>
<li>Decant supernatant and resuspend pellet in ice-cold homogenization buffer [6.5 ml of buffer/g (wet weight) cells].</li>
<li>Centrifuge for 5 min at 3000 x g at 4&deg;C.</li>
<li>Centrifuge the resulting supernatant for 15 min at 12000 x g at 4&deg;C.</li>
<li>Decant supernatant and resuspend pellet in 3 ml of ice-cold SEM buffer.</li>
</ol>
**Although this suspension is enriched in mitochondria, it also contains other organelles such as the endoplasmic reticulum (microsomes), Golgi, and vacuoles. To get pure mitochondria, this crude mitochondrial fraction can be subjected to further fractionation, as described below.**
Purification of mitochondria devoid of contamination by other organelles
<ol>
<li>Place 1.5 ml of ice-cold 60% (w/v) sucrose in EM buffer into a Beckman Ultra-Clear centrifuge tube.</li>
<li>Overlay 60% (w/v) sucrose with 4 ml of 32%, 1.5 ml of 23%, 1.5 ml of 15% sucrose (all wt/v in EM buffer).</li>
<li>Place 3 ml of the crude mitochondrial fraction in SEM buffer on top of 15% (w/v) sucrose. </li>
<li>Centrifuge in a Beckman SW41 Ti swinging-bucket rotor for 1 h at 134000 x g (33000 rpm) at 4&deg;C.&nbsp; </li>
<li>The intact mitochondria form a brown band at the 60%/32% sucrose interface. </li>
<li>Carefully remove sucrose until reaching the mitochondrial band. </li>
<li>Remove the mitochondrial band using a pipette with a cut tip and place it into a Beckman centrifuge tube for an MLS-5 rotor.</li>
<li>Fill the tube with SEM buffer.</li>
<li>Pellet the pure mitochondria by centrifugation in an MLS-5 rotor for 30 min at 10000 x g (31000 rpm) for 30 minutes at 4&deg;C.</li>
<li>Decant supernatant using a pipette.</li>
<li>Use the pure mitochondria for the analysis of mitochondrial functions, mitochondrial proteome and lipidome, and mitochondrial DNA.</li>
</ol>
Reagents
<ol>
<li>DTT buffer [100 mM Tris/H2SO4 (pH 9.4), 10 mM dithiothreitol] (for 15 ml)
<ul style="list-style-type:none;">
<li>1.5 ml of 1 M Tris/H2SO4 buffer (pH 9.4)</li>
<li>150 &mu;l of 1 M DTT</li>
<li>Volume to 15 ml</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Zymolyase buffer [20 mM potassium phosphate (pH 7.4), 1.2 M sorbitol] (for 100 ml)
<ul style="list-style-type:none;">
<li>2 ml of 1 M potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.4)</li>
<li>60 ml of 2 M sorbitol</li>
<li>Volume to 100 ml</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Homogenization buffer [10 mM Tris/HCl (pH 7.4), 0.6 M sorbitol, 1 mM EDTA, 0.2% (w/v) BSA] (for 250 ml]
<ul style="list-style-type:none;">
<li>2.5 ml of 1 M Tris/HCl buffer (pH 7.4)</li>
<li>75 ml of 2 M sorbitol</li>
<li>500 &mu;l of 500 mM EDTA</li>
<li>0.5 g of BSA</li>
<li>Volume to 250 ml</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>SEM buffer [10 mM MOPS/KOH (pH 7.2), 250 mM sucrose, 1 mM EDTA] (for 250 ml)
<ul style="list-style-type:none;">
<li>2.5 ml of 1 M MOPS/KOH buffer (pH 7.2)</li>
<li>31.25 ml of 2 M sucrose</li>
<li>500 &mu;l of 500 mM EDTA</li>
<li>Volume to 250 ml</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>EM buffer [10 mM MOPS/KOH (pH 7.2), 1 mM EDTA] (for 250 ml)
<ul style="list-style-type:none;">
<li>2.5 ml of 1 M MOPS/KOH buffer (pH 7.2)</li>
<li>500 &mu;l of 500 mM EDTA</li>
<li>Volume to 250 ml</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>

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