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Experimental conditions affect the site of tetrazolium violet reduction in the electron transport chain of Free

Abstract

The reduction of tetrazolium salts to coloured formazans is often used as an indicator of cell metabolism during microbiology studies, although the reduction mechanisms have never clearly been established in bacteria. The objective of the present study was to identify the reduction mechanisms of tetrazolium violet (TV) in using a mutagenesis approach, under two experimental conditions generally applied in microbiology: a plate test with growing cells, and a liquid test with non-growing (resting) cells. The results showed that in both tests, TV reduction resulted from electron transfer from an intracellular donor (mainly NADH) to TV via the electron transport chain (ETC), but the reduction sites in the ETC depended on experimental conditions. Using the plate test, menaquinones were essential for TV reduction and membrane NADH dehydrogenases (NoxA and/or NoxB) were partly involved in electron transfer to menaquinones. In this case, TV reduction mainly occurred outside the cells and in the outer part of the plasma membrane. During the liquid test, TV was directly reduced by NoxA and/or NoxB, probably in the inner part of the membrane, where NoxA and NoxB are localized. In this case, reduction was directly related to the intracellular NADH pool. Based on these findings, new applications for TV tests are proposed, such as NADH pool determination with the liquid test and the screening of mutants affected in menaquinone biosynthesis with the plate test. Preliminary results using other tetrazolium salts in the plate test showed that the reduction sites depended on the salt, suggesting that similar studies should be carried out with other tetrazolium salts so that the outcome of each test can be interpreted correctly.

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Keyword(s): CTC, 5-cyano-2,3-ditolyl tetrazolium chloride , ETC, electron transport chain , INT, 2-(4-iodophenyl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl)-5-phenyl-2H-tetrazolium chloride , LAB, lactic acid bacteria, SOD, superoxide dismutase , MTS, 5-[3-(carboxymethoxy)phenyl]-3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2-(4-sulfophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium inner salt , MTT, 2-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-3,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide , TTC, 2,3,5-triphenyl-2H-tetrazolium chloride , TV, 2,5-diphenyl-3-2-naphthyl tetrazolium chloride or tetrazolium violet , WST-1, sodium 5-(2,4-disulfophenyl)-2-(4-iodophenyl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium inner salt , WST-5, disodium 2,2′-dibenzothiazolyl-5,5′-bis[4-di(2-sulfoethyl)carbamoylphenyl]-3,3′-(3,3′-dimethoxy-4,4′-biphenylene) ditetrazolium salt and XTT, sodium 2,3-bis(2-methyloxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl)-5-[(phenylamino)-carbonyl]-2H-tetrazolium inner salt
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Experimental conditions affect the site of tetrazolium violet reduction in the electron transport chain of Lactococcus lactis
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