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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-71038-2
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [741791]
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
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Flavin-based electron bifurcation is a long hidden mechanism of energetic coupling present mainly in anaerobic bacteria and archaea that suffer from energy limitations in their environment. Electron bifurcation saves precious cellular ATP and enables lithotrophic life of acetate-forming (acetogenic) bacteria that grow on H-2+CO2 by the only pathway that combines CO2 fixation with ATP synthesis, the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. The energy barrier for the endergonic reduction of NADP(+), an electron carrier in the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway, with NADH as reductant is overcome by an electron-bifurcating, ferredoxin-dependent transhydrogenase (Nfn) but many acetogens lack nfn genes. We have purified a ferredoxin-dependent NADH:NADP(+) oxidoreductase from Sporomusa ovata, characterized the enzyme biochemically and identified the encoding genes. These studies led to the identification of a novel, Sporomusa type Nfn (Stn), built from existing modules of enzymes such as the soluble [Fe-Fe] hydrogenase, that is widespread in acetogens and other anaerobic bacteria.
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