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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 196, Issue 22, Pages 3840-3852Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02070-14
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- Max Planck Society
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
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Ruminococcus albus 7 has played a key role in the development of the concept of interspecies hydrogen transfer. The rumen bacterium ferments glucose to 1.3 acetate, 0.7 ethanol, 2 CO2, and 2.6 H-2 when growing in batch culture and to 2 acetate, 2 CO2, and 4 H-2 when growing in continuous culture in syntrophic association with H-2-consuming microorganisms that keep the H-2 partial pressure low. The organism uses NAD(+) and ferredoxin for glucose oxidation to acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) and CO2, NADH for the reduction of acetyl-CoA to ethanol, and NADH and reduced ferredoxin for the reduction of protons to H-2. Of all the enzymes involved, only the enzyme catalyzing the formation of H-2 from NADH remained unknown. Here, we report that R. albus 7 grown in batch culture on glucose contained, besides a ferredoxin-dependent [FeFe]-hydrogenase (HydA2), a ferredoxin- and NAD-dependent electron-bifurcating [FeFe]-hydrogenase (HydABC) that couples the endergonic formation of H-2 from NADH to the exergonic formation of H-2 from reduced ferredoxin. Interestingly, hydA2 is adjacent to the hydS gene, which is predicted to encode an [FeFe]-hydrogenase with a C-terminal PAS domain. We showed that hydS and hydA2 are part of a larger transcriptional unit also harboring putative genes for a bifunctional acetaldehyde/ethanol dehydrogenase (Aad), serine/threonine protein kinase, serine/threonine protein phosphatase, and a redox-sensing transcriptional repressor. Since HydA2 and Aad are required only when R. albus grows at high H-2 partial pressures, HydS could be a H-2-sensing [FeFe]-hydrogenase involved in the regulation of their biosynthesis.
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