발아중인 대두콩에서의 lipoxygenase의 세포내 위치를 차별 원심 분리법과 밀도 구배법을 이용하여 규명하였다. 차별 원심 분리법을 사용하였을때, lipoxygenase활성은 거의 supernatant fraction에서 나타났으며, 1.5%의 활성만이 particulate fractions에서 나타났다. 밀도 구배법에서는 lipoxygenase와 acid phosphatase의 활성이 1.19, 1.23, $1.25g/cm^3$의 높은 밀도들에서 일치하였으며, 이것은 발아중 가수분해되는 단백질체내에 이 효소가 국재되어지는 것으로 사료되어진다. 다른 세포내 소기관인미토콘드리아, ER, 그리고 glyoxysomes에 lipoxygenase가 존재한다는 증거는 보이지 않았다.
The subcellular distribution of lipoxygenase in germinating soybean seeds (Glycine max[L.] AmSoy) was investigated by using differential centrifugation and sucrose density gradient fractionation. Most of lipoxygenase -1 and -2/3 activities was present in the supernatant fraction after differential centrifugation of homogenates prepared from three-day-old seedlings; only 1.5% of lipoxygenase activity remained in particulate fractions. The results of a sucrose density gradient fractionation (three-day-old) showed that the lipoxygenase activity coincided with acid phosphatase at the densities of 1.19, 1.23, $1.25g/cm^3$, even though most of lipoxygenase and acid phosphatase activities appeared in supernatant fractions. There was no indication that mitochondria contained any lipoxygenase activity, and it does not appear that glyoxysomes and ER contained any lipoxygenase activity either.
