Unleashing hydrogenase activity in carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase and pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase

Biochemistry
S Menon, Stephen W Ragsdale

Abstract

These results demonstrate that two well-studied metalloenzymes, carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase (CODH/ACS) and pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (PFOR), can reduce protons to H2 and, at much lower rates, oxidize H2 to protons and electrons. To our knowledge, this if the first time that PFOR has been shown to have hydrogenase activity. CODH/ACS and PFOR evolved H2 at maximum rates when CO and pyruvate were the electron donors, respectively, and when electron acceptors are absent; dithionite was a very poor substitute. PFOR, when purified to greater than 99% homogeneity, exhibited a specific activity for pyruvate-dependent H2 production of 135 nmol min-1 mg-1. The H2 evolution activity divided by the H2 uptake activity was 282:1; the highest ratio previously reported (22:1) was with the membrane-bound hydrogenase from Rhodospirillum rubrum [Fox, J.D., Kerby, R. L., Roberts, G. P., & Ludden, P. W. (1996) J. Bacteriol. 178, 1515-1524]. Highly purified samples of CODH/ACS (> 99% homogeneity) exhibited a specific activity of CO-dependent H2 evolution in the absence of electron carrier of 590 nmol min-1 mg-1. Equivalent rates of CO oxidation and H2 production were observed when determined in the absence of electron ...Continue Reading

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