Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela
Abstract
A study of the subcellular localization of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH)-3-(4, 3-dimethylthiazolyl-2)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) oxido-reductase systems in
Mycobacterium
was presented. Evidence based on starch gel electrophoresis and different responses of the subcellular fractions to heat inactivation suggested the existence of more than one enzyme responsible for the NADH-MTT oxido-reductase activity. One type of activity was found in the membrane-mesosome fraction which contained labile and electrophoretically non-migrating enzymes. Another type of activity was also detected in the soluble fraction which on starch gel electrophoresis exhibited 4 bands of activity, two of which showed heat resistance.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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