Zeta potential as a measure of the surface charge of mycobacterial cells

Annals of Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1189-1195

  Ayala Torres, Carlos ^a   Hernández, Nicolás ^a   Galeano, Alejandra ^a   Novoa Aponte, Lorena ^a   Soto, Carlos Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cell surface charge; Electrophoretic mobility; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Zeta potential

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906318254     PISSN: 15904261     EISSN: 18692044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13213-013-0758-y     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Agranoff D, Krishna S (2004) Metal ion transport and regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Front Biosci 9:2996-3006
2. Altaf M, Miller CH, Bellows DS, O'Toole R (2010) Evaluation of the Mycobacterium smegmatis and BCG models for the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis inhibitors. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 90(6):333-337. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2010.09.002
3. Amaral L, Martins M, Viveiros M (2007) Enhanced killing of intracellular multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis by compounds that affect the activity of efflux pumps. J Antimicrob Chemother 59(6):1237-1246. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkl500
4. Bar-Even A, Noor E, Flamholz A, Buescher JM, Milo R (2011) Hydrophobicity and charge shape cellular metabolite concentrations. PLoS Comput Biol 7(10):e1002166. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002166
5. Bayer ME, Sloyer JL Jr (1990) The electrophoretic mobility of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria: an electrokinetic analysis. J Gen Microbiol 136(5):867-874
6. Birch HL, Alderwick LJ, Appelmelk BJ, Maaskant J, Bhatt A, Singh A, Nigou J, Eggeling L, Geurtsen J, Besra GS (2010) A truncated lipoglycan from mycobacteria with altered immunological properties. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107(6):2634-2639. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0915082107
7. Cardona PJ, Soto CY, Martin C, Giquel B, Agusti G, Andreu N, Guirado E, Sirakova T, Kolattukudy P, Julian E, Luquin M (2006) Neutral-red reaction is related to virulence and cell wall methyl-branched lipids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Microbes Infect 8(1):183-190. doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2005.06.011
8. Chapman JS, Bernard JS (1962) The tolerances of unclassified mycobacteria. I. Limits of pH tolerance. Am Rev Respir Dis 86:582-583
9. Ciesla J, Bieganowski A, Janczarek M, Urbanik-Sypniewska T (2011) Determination of the electrokinetic potential of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv trifolii Rt24.2 using Laser Doppler Velocimetry - a methodological study. J Microbiol Methods 85(3):199-205. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2011.03.004
10. Daffe M, Draper P (1998) The envelope layers of mycobacteria with reference to their pathogenicity. Adv Microb Physiol 39:131-203
11. Daffe M, Etienne G (1999) The capsule of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its implications for pathogenicity. Tuber Lung Dis 79(3):153-169. doi: 10.1054/tuld.1998.0200
12. Dubos RJ, Middlebrook G (1948) Cytochemical reaction of virulent tubercle bacilli. Am Rev Tuberc 58(6):698
13. Eboigbodin KE, Newton JR, Routh AF, Biggs CA (2006) Bacterial quorum sensing and cell surface electrokinetic properties. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 73(3):669-675. doi: 10.1007/s00253-006-0505-4
14. Forrellad MA, Klepp LI, Gioffre A, Sabio y Garcia J, Morbidoni HR, de la Paz Santangelo M, Cataldi AA, Bigi F (2013) Virulence factors of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Virulence 4(1):3-66. doi: 10.4161/viru.22329
15. Goulter RM, Gentle IR, Dykes GA (2009) Issues in determining factors influencing bacterial attachment: a review using the attachment of Escherichia coli to abiotic surfaces as an example. Lett Appl Microbiol 49(1):1-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2009.02591.x
16. Hayashi H, Seiki H, Tsuneda S, Hirata A, Sasaki H (2003) Influence of growth phase on bacterial cell electrokinetic characteristics examined by soft particle electrophoresis theory. J Colloid Interface Sci 264(2):565-568. doi: 10.1016/S0021-9797(03)00418-1
17. Hiemenz P, Rajagopalan R (1997) Principles of colloid and surface chemistry. Third edition, revised and expanded. Marcel Dekker, New York
18. Holder DJ, Kirkland BH, Lewis MW, Keyhani NO (2007) Surface characteristics of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria (Cordyceps) bassiana. Microbiology 153(Pt 10):3448-3457. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/008524-0
19. Kristensen S, Tian Y, Klegerman ME, Groves MJ (1992) Origins of BCG surface charge: effect of ionic strength and chemical modifications on zeta potential of Mycobacterium bovis BCG, Tice substrain, cells. Microbios 70(284-285):185-198
20. Livanainen E (1995) Isolation of mycobacteria from acidic forest soil samples: comparison of culture methods. J Appl Bacteriol 78(6):663-668
21. Middlebrook G, Coleman CM, Schaefer WB (1959) Sulfolipid from virulent tubercle bacilli. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 45(12):1801-1804
22. Mozes N, Leonard AJ, Rouxhet PG (1988) On the relations between the elemental surface composition of yeasts and bacteria and their charge and hydrophobicity. Biochim Biophys Acta 945(2):324-334
23. Rao SP, Alonso S, Rand L, Dick T, Pethe K (2008) The proton motive force is required for maintaining ATP homeostasis and viability of hypoxic, nonreplicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105(33):11945-11950. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711697105
24. Rosenhahn A, Finlay JA, Pettit ME, Ward A, Wirges W, Gerhard R, Callow ME, Grunze M, Callow JA (2009) Zeta potential of motile spores of the green alga Ulva linza and the influence of electrostatic interactions on spore settlement and adhesion strength. Biointerphases 4(1):7-11. doi: 10.1116/1.3110182
25. Seale RB, Bremer PJ, Flint SH, McQuillan AJ (2010) Characterization of spore surfaces from a Geobacillus sp. isolate by pH dependence of surface charge and infrared spectra. J Appl Microbiol 109(4):1339-1348. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2010.04760.x
26. Snapper SB, Melton RE, Mustafa S, Kieser T, Jacobs WR Jr (1990) Isolation and characterization of efficient plasmid transformation mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis. Mol Microbiol 4(11):1911-1919
27. Soni KA, Balasubramanian AK, Beskok A, Pillai SD (2008) Zeta potential of selected bacteria in drinking water when dead, starved, or exposed to minimal and rich culture media. Curr Microbiol 56(1):93-97. doi: 10.1007/s00284-007- 9046-z
28. Soto CY, Andreu N, Gibert I, Luquin M (2002) Simple and rapid differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra from M. tuberculosis clinical isolates through two cytochemical tests using neutral red and nile blue stains. J Clin Microbiol 40(8):3021-3024
29. Sturgill-Koszycki S, Schlesinger PH, Chakraborty P, Haddix PL, Collins HL, Fok AK, Allen RD, Gluck SL, Heuser J, Russell DG (1994) Lack of acidification in Mycobacterium phagosomes produced by exclusion of the vesicular proton-ATPase. Science 263(5147):678-681
30. van der Mei HC, Busscher HJ (2001) Electrophoretic mobility distributions of single-strain microbial populations. Appl Environ Microbiol 67(2):491-494
31. van Loosdrecht MC, Lyklema J, Norde W, Schraa G, Zehnder AJ (1987) Electrophoretic mobility and hydrophobicity as a measured to predict the initial steps of bacterial adhesion. Appl Environ Microbiol 53(8):1898-1901
32. Yeung T, Grinstein S (2007) Lipid signaling and the modulation of surface charge during phagocytosis. Immunol Rev 219:17-36. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-065X. 2007.00546.x
33. Zhang A, Groves MJ, Klegerman ME (1988) The surface charge of cells of Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine, Tice substrain. Microbios 53(216-217):191-195