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MICROORGANISMS
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10081617
Keywords
hydrogen; photosynthesis; electron transport; photosystem I; respiration
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- German Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF) [FP309]
- German Science Foundation (DFG) [Gu1522/2-1, Gu1522/5-1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences and Research Council (BBSRC) [BB/L013940/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
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The cyanobacterial bidirectional [NiFe]-hydrogenase is a pentameric enzyme that interacts with NAD(P)(+) and ferredoxin. It utilizes excited electrons from PSI for photohydrogen production and catalyzes the reverse reaction by feeding electrons into the photosynthetic electron transport. This enzyme might interact with photosynthetic complex I (NDH-1) and play a role in electron transfer.
The cyanobacterial bidirectional [NiFe]-hydrogenase is a pentameric enzyme. Apart from the small and large hydrogenase subunits (HoxYH) it contains a diaphorase module (HoxEFU) that interacts with NAD(P)(+) and ferredoxin. HoxEFU shows strong similarity to the outermost subunits (NuoEFG) of canonical respiratory complexes I. Photosynthetic complex I (NDH-1) lacks these three subunits. This led to the idea that HoxEFU might interact with NDH-1 instead. HoxEFUYH utilizes excited electrons from PSI for photohydrogen production and it catalyzes the reverse reaction and feeds electrons into the photosynthetic electron transport. We analyzed hydrogenase activity, photohydrogen evolution and hydrogen uptake, the respiration and photosynthetic electron transport of Delta hoxEFUYH, and a knock-out strain with dysfunctional NDH-1 (Delta ndhD1/Delta ndhD2) of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Photohydrogen production was prolonged in Delta ndhD1/Delta ndhD2 due to diminished hydrogen uptake. Electrons from hydrogen oxidation must follow a different route into the photosynthetic electron transport in this mutant compared to wild type cells. Furthermore, respiration was reduced in Delta hoxEFUYH and the Delta ndhD1/Delta ndhD2 localization of the hydrogenase to the membrane was impaired. These data indicate that electron transfer from the hydrogenase to the NDH-1 complex is either direct, by the binding of the hydrogenase to the complex, or indirect, via an additional mediator.
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