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JOURNAL OF BIOENERGETICS AND BIOMEMBRANES
Volume 43, Issue 6, Pages 645-650Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10863-011-9397-9
Keywords
F0F1-ATP synthase; [NiFe]-hydrogenases; pH; Fermentation of glucose or glycerol; Hydrogen oxidation; E. coli
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- FEBS
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SA 494/3-1]
- Ministry of Education
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Escherichia coli has four [NiFe]-hydrogenases (Hyd); three of these, Hyd-1, Hyd-2 and Hyd-3 have been characterized well. In this study the requirement for the F0F1-ATP synthase for the activities of the hydrogen-oxidizing hydrogenases Hyd-1 and Hyd-2 was examined. During fermentative growth on glucose at pH 7.5 an E. coli F0F1-ATP synthase mutant (DK8) lacked hydrogenase activity. At pH 5.5 hydrogenase activity was only 20% that of the wild type. Using in-gel activity staining, it could be demonstrated that both Hyd-1 and Hyd-2 were essentially inactive at these pHs, indicating that the residual activity at pH 5.5 was due to the hydrogen-evolving Hyd-3 enzyme. During fermentative growth in the presence of glycerol, hydrogenase activity in the mutant was highest at pH 7.5 attaining a value of 0.76 U/mg, or similar to 50% of wild type activity, and Hyd-2 was only partially active at this pH, while Hyd-1 was inactive. Essentially no hydrogenase activity was measured at pH 5.5 during growth with glycerol. At this pH the mutant had a hydrogenase activity that was maximally only similar to 10% of wild type activity with either carbon substrate but a weak activity of both Hyd-1 and Hyd-2 could be detected. Taken together, these results demonstrate for the first time that the activity of the hydrogen-oxidizing hydrogenases in E. coli depends on an active F0F1-ATP synthase during growth at high and low pH.
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