“…In vitro binding of calcium to mitochondria also has been observed (Slater and Cleland, 1953;DeLuca and Engstrom, 1961 ;Vasington and Murphy, 1962;Lehninger et al, 1963;Brierley et al, 1963;Engstrom and DeLuca, 1964). Digitonin-treated mitochondria bind calcium (Vasington, 1963); vitamin D and parathyroid hormone influence mitochondrial calcium binding (DeLuca et al, 1962;Rasmussen and DeLuca, 1963); and carbon tetrachloride (Thiers et al, 1960) and thioacetamide (Gallagher et al, 1956) cause mitochondrial calcium to increase markedly.…”