THE MECHANISM OF THE TETRAZOLIUM REACTION IN CORN EMBRYOS
- 1 July 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 27 (3), 445-456
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.27.3.445
Abstract
Reduction of triphenyltetrazolium chloride by corn embryo homogenates is catalyzed by malic, alcohol, beta-hydroxybutyric, glutamic, and probably also triosephosphate, isocitric, and glycerophosphate dehydrogenases. These systems are linked through diphosphopyridine-nucleotide and diaphorase. Xanthine oxidase (milk) is also active. Optimum conditions and kinetics of the malic system were studied and tetrazolium and methylene blue reduction with a number of substrates was compared.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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