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Quinone reduction by the Na+-translocating NADH dehydrogenase promotes extracellular superoxide production in Vibrio cholerae.


ABSTRACT: The pathogenicity of Vibrio cholerae is influenced by sodium ions which are actively extruded from the cell by the Na(+)-translocating NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (Na(+)-NQR). To study the function of the Na(+)-NQR in the respiratory chain of V. cholerae, we examined the formation of organic radicals and superoxide in a wild-type strain and a mutant strain lacking the Na(+)-NQR. Upon reduction with NADH, an organic radical was detected in native membranes by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy which was assigned to ubisemiquinones generated by the Na(+)-NQR. The radical concentration increased from 0.2 mM at 0.08 mM Na(+) to 0.4 mM at 14.7 mM Na(+), indicating that the concentration of the coupling cation influences the redox state of the quinone pool in V. cholerae membranes. During respiration, V. cholerae cells produced extracellular superoxide with a specific activity of 10.2 nmol min(-1) mg(-1) in the wild type compared to 3.1 nmol min(-1) mg(-1) in the NQR deletion strain. Raising the Na(+) concentration from 0.1 to 5 mM increased the rate of superoxide formation in the wild-type V. cholerae strain by at least 70%. Rates of respiratory H(2)O(2) formation by wild-type V. cholerae cells (30.9 nmol min(-1) mg(-1)) were threefold higher than rates observed with the mutant strain lacking the Na(+)-NQR (9.7 nmol min(-1) mg(-1)). Our study shows that environmental Na(+) could stimulate ubisemiquinone formation by the Na(+)-NQR and hereby enhance the production of reactive oxygen species formed during the autoxidation of reduced quinones.

SUBMITTER: Lin PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1913329 | biostudies-literature | 2007 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Quinone reduction by the Na+-translocating NADH dehydrogenase promotes extracellular superoxide production in Vibrio cholerae.

Lin Po-Chi PC   Türk Karin K   Häse Claudia C CC   Fritz Günter G   Steuber Julia J  

Journal of bacteriology 20070223 10


The pathogenicity of Vibrio cholerae is influenced by sodium ions which are actively extruded from the cell by the Na(+)-translocating NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (Na(+)-NQR). To study the function of the Na(+)-NQR in the respiratory chain of V. cholerae, we examined the formation of organic radicals and superoxide in a wild-type strain and a mutant strain lacking the Na(+)-NQR. Upon reduction with NADH, an organic radical was detected in native membranes by electron paramagnetic resonance spect  ...[more]

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