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Carbon Fixation in the Chemolithoautotrophic Bacterium Aquifex aeolicus Involves Two Low-Potential Ferredoxins as Partners of the PFOR and OGOR Enzymes

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LIFE-BASEL
卷 13, 期 3, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/life13030627

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carbon fixation; reverse TCA cycle; low potential ferredoxin; pyruvate; ferredoxin oxidoreductase; oxoglutarate; Wood-Ljungdahl pathway; chemolithoautotrophic bacteria; hyperthermophilic bacteria; hydrogenase

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Aquifex aeolicus is a microaerophilic bacterium that oxidizes hydrogen and sulfur and assimilates CO2 via the reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle (rTCA). It possesses pentameric versions of key enzymes (PFOR and OGOR) involved in this pathway, which are highly abundant in the cell. Two low redox potential and oxygen-stable ferredoxins (Fd6 and Fd7) were identified in A. aeolicus and shown to interact with PFOR and OGOR, potentially serving as electron donors in vivo.
Aquifex aeolicus is a microaerophilic hydrogen- and sulfur -oxidizing bacterium that assimilates CO2 via the reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle (rTCA). Key enzymes of this pathway are pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (PFOR) and 2-oxoglutarate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (OGOR), which are responsible, respectively, for the reductive carboxylation of acetyl-CoA to pyruvate and of succinyl-CoA to 2-oxoglutarate, two energetically unfavorable reactions that require a strong reduction potential. We have confirmed, by biochemistry and proteomics, that A. aeolicus possesses a pentameric version of these enzyme complexes ((alpha beta gamma delta epsilon)(2)) and that they are highly abundant in the cell. In addition, we have purified and characterized, from the soluble fraction of A. aeolicus, two low redox potential and oxygen-stable [4Fe-4S] ferredoxins (Fd6 and Fd7, E-0 = -440 and -460 mV, respectively) and shown that they can physically interact and exchange electrons with both PFOR and OGOR, suggesting that they could be the physiological electron donors of the system in vivo. Shotgun proteomics indicated that all the enzymes assumed to be involved in the rTCA cycle are produced in the A. aeolicus cells. A number of additional enzymes, previously suggested to be part of a putative partial Wood-Ljungdahl pathway used for the synthesis of serine and glycine from CO2 were identified by mass spectrometry, but their abundance in the cell seems to be much lower than that of the rTCA cycle. Their possible involvement in carbon assimilation is discussed.

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