Oxygen Generation via Water Splitting by a Novel Biogenic Metal Ion-Binding Compound.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Philip DershwitzAlan A DiSpirito

Abstract

Methanobactins (MBs) are small (<1,300-Da) posttranslationally modified copper-binding peptides and represent the extracellular component of a copper acquisition system in some methanotrophs. Interestingly, MBs can bind a range of metal ions, with some being reduced after binding, e.g., Cu2+ reduced to Cu+. Other metal ions, however, are bound but not reduced, e.g., K+. The source of electrons for selective metal ion reduction has been speculated to be water but never empirically shown. Here, using H218O, we show that when MBs from Methylocystis sp. strain SB2 (MB-SB2) and Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b (MB-OB3) were incubated in the presence of either Au3+, Cu2, or Ag+, 18,18O2 and free protons were released. No 18,18O2 production was observed in the presence of either MB-SB2 or MB-OB3b alone, gold alone, copper alone, or silver alone or when K+ or Mo2+ was incubated with MB-SB2. In contrast to MB-OB3b, MB-SB2 binds Fe3+ with an N2S2 coordination and will also reduce Fe3+ to Fe2+. Iron reduction was also found to be coupled to the oxidation of 2H2O and the generation of O2. MB-SB2 will also couple Hg2+, Ni2+, and Co2+ reduction to the oxidation of 2H2O and the generation of O2, but MB-OB3b will not, ostensibly as MB-OB3b bind...Continue Reading

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