Journal
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
Volume 60, Issue -, Pages 1312-1318Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.03.001
Keywords
Rhodobacter sphaeroides; Genetic modification; Hydrogenase; Nitrogenase; Light harvesting system
Funding
- Fund Project of the Science & Technology Department of Sichuan Province, China [2013GZ0019)]
- Fund Project of the Education Department of Sichuan Province [13ZA0056]
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This review summarizes recent aspects of genetic modification of uptake hydrogenase and nitrogenase and light harvesting system, with emphasis on Rhodobacter sphaeroides. It possesses several types of the enzyme complexes catalyzing N-2 fixation and H-2 formation or oxidation, namely, three nitrogenases, and three hydrogenases. A major route for hydrogen production by R. sphaeroides is biological nitrogen fixation. However, hydrogen production in the context of nitrogen fixation is a rather inefficient process because most of the reductant consumed by the nitrogenase is used to generate ammonia. Modification of these genes, including hupS and/or hupL of hydrogenase, nifA and nifL of nitrogenase in R. sphaeroides, are summarized from recent studies. New ideas on the roles of nitrogenases and hydrogenases are presented and a description is made of a selection strategy to modify the strain of R. sphaeroide in which hydrogen production is necessary for growth. In addition, there is an interest in exploiting R. sphaeroides in light harvesting system to produce more electron, in which a result of photosynthetic cyclic electron transfer is to generate more H-2. Thus it does not need more efficient hydrogenases and nitrogenases. A likely better strategy is to exploit the use of solar energy by the photosynthetic electron transport system to enhance the rates of H-2 formation by genetic modification and thus improve the chances of utilizing R. sphaeroides as a source for the generation of clean energy for large-scale production. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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