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Differential hydrolysis of proteins of four microalgae by the digestive enzymes of gilthead sea bream and Senegalese sole. ALGAL RES 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2018.11.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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A Review of Hydrogen Production by Photosynthetic Organisms Using Whole-Cell and Cell-Free Systems. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2017; 183:503-519. [DOI: 10.1007/s12010-017-2576-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 08/02/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Yan F, Chen Z, Li W, Cao X, Xue S, Zhang W. Purification and characterization of a hydrogenase from the marine green alga Tetraselmis subcordiformis. Process Biochem 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2011.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Constant P, Poissant L, Villemur R. Tropospheric H(2) budget and the response of its soil uptake under the changing environment. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2009; 407:1809-1823. [PMID: 19155054 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.10.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2008] [Revised: 10/06/2008] [Accepted: 10/26/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Molecular hydrogen (H(2)) is an indirect greenhouse gas present at the trace level in the atmosphere. So far, the sum of its sources and sinks is close to equilibrium, but its large-scale utilization as an alternative energy carrier would alter its atmospheric burden. The magnitude of the emissions associated with a future H(2)-based economy is difficult to predict and remains a matter of debate. Previous attempts to predict the impact that a future H(2)-based economy would exert on tropospheric chemistry were realized by considering a steady rate of microbial-mediated soil uptake, which is currently responsible of ~80% of the tropospheric H(2) losses. Although soil uptake, also known as dry deposition is the most important sink for tropospheric H(2), microorganisms involved in the activity remain elusive. Given that microbial-mediated H(2) soil uptake is influenced by several environmental factors, global change should exert a significant effect on the activity and then, assuming a steady H(2) soil uptake rate for the future may be mistaken. Here, we present an overview of tropospheric H(2) sources and sinks with an emphasis on microbial-mediated soil uptake process. Future researches are proposed to investigate the influence that global change would exert on H(2) dry deposition and to identify microorganisms involved H(2) soil uptake activity.
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- Philippe Constant
- INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, 531 boul. des Prairies, Laval, Québec, Canada H7V 1B7.
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Stripp ST, Happe T. How algae produce hydrogen—news from the photosynthetic hydrogenase. Dalton Trans 2009:9960-9. [DOI: 10.1039/b916246a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Kim JK, Nhat L, Chun YN, Kim SW. Hydrogen production conditions from food waste by dark fermentation with Clostridium beijerinckii KCTC 1785. BIOTECHNOL BIOPROC E 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/s12257-008-0142-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Melis A. Photosynthetic H2 metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (unicellular green algae). PLANTA 2007; 226:1075-86. [PMID: 17721788 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-007-0609-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2007] [Accepted: 07/27/2007] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Unicellular green algae have the ability to operate in two distinctly different environments (aerobic and anaerobic), and to photosynthetically generate molecular hydrogen (H2). A recently developed metabolic protocol in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii permitted separation of photosynthetic O2-evolution and carbon accumulation from anaerobic consumption of cellular metabolites and concomitant photosynthetic H2-evolution. The H2 evolution process was induced upon sulfate nutrient deprivation of the cells, which reversibly inhibits photosystem-II and O2-evolution in their chloroplast. In the absence of O2, and in order to generate ATP, green algae resorted to anaerobic photosynthetic metabolism, evolved H2 in the light and consumed endogenous substrate. This study summarizes recent advances on green algal hydrogen metabolism and discusses avenues of research for the further development of this method. Included is the mechanism of a substantial tenfold starch accumulation in the cells, observed promptly upon S-deprivation, and the regulated starch and protein catabolism during the subsequent H2-evolution. Also discussed is the function of a chloroplast envelope-localized sulfate permease, and the photosynthesis-respiration relationship in green algae as potential tools by which to stabilize and enhance H2 metabolism. In addition to potential practical applications of H2, approaches discussed in this work are beginning to address the biochemistry of anaerobic H2 photoproduction, its genes, proteins, regulation, and communication with other metabolic pathways in microalgae. Photosynthetic H2 production by green algae may hold the promise of generating a renewable fuel from nature's most plentiful resources, sunlight and water. The process potentially concerns global warming and the question of energy supply and demand.
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- Anastasios Melis
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, 111 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA.
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Bhosale SH, Pant A, Khan MI. Purification and characterization of putative alkaline [Ni-Fe] hydrogenase from unicellular marine green alga, Tetraselmis kochinensis NCIM 1605. Microbiol Res 2007; 164:131-7. [PMID: 17321121 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2006.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2006] [Revised: 07/21/2006] [Accepted: 11/08/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Hydrogenase enzyme from the unicellular marine green alga Tetraselmis kochinensis NCIM 1605 was purified 467 fold to homogeneity. The molecular weight was estimated to be approximately 89kDa by SDS-PAGE. This enzyme consists of two subunits with molecular masses of approximately 70 and approximately 19kDa. The hydrogenase was found to contain 10g atoms of Fe and 1g of atom of Ni per mole of protein. The specific activity of hydrogen evolution was 50micromol H(2)/mg/h of enzyme using reduced methyl viologen as an electron donor. This hydrogenase enzyme has pI value approximately 9.6 representing its alkaline nature. The absorption spectrum of the hydrogenase enzyme showed an absorption peak at 425nm indicating that the enzyme had iron-sulfur clusters. The total of 16 cysteine residues were found per mole of enzyme under the denaturing condition and 20 cysteine residues in reduced denatured enzyme indicating that it has two disulfide bridges.
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- S H Bhosale
- Biochemical Sciences Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Happe T, Hemschemeier A, Winkler M, Kaminski A. Hydrogenases in green algae: do they save the algae's life and solve our energy problems? TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2002; 7:246-250. [PMID: 12049920 DOI: 10.1016/s1360-1385(02)02274-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Green algae are the only known eukaryotes with both oxygenic photosynthesis and a hydrogen metabolism. Recent physiological and genetic discoveries indicate a close connection between these metabolic pathways. The anaerobically inducible hydA genes of algae encode a special type of highly active [Fe]-hydrogenase. Electrons from reducing equivalents generated during fermentation enter the photosynthetic electron transport chain via the plastoquinone pool. They are transferred to the hydrogenase by photosystem I and ferredoxin. Thus, the [Fe]-hydrogenase is an electron 'valve' that enables the algae to survive under anaerobic conditions. During sulfur deprivation, illuminated algal cultures evolve large quantities of hydrogen gas, and this promises to be an alternative future energy source.
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- Thomas Happe
- Botanisches Institut, Abt. Molekulare Biochemie, Universität Bonn, Karlrobert-Kreiten-Strasse 13, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
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Lloyd D, Ralphs JR, Harris JC. Giardia intestinalis, a eukaryote without hydrogenosomes, produces hydrogen. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2002; 148:727-733. [PMID: 11882707 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-3-727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The microaerophilic flagellated protist Giardia intestinalis, the commonest protozoal agent of intestinal infections worldwide, is of uncertain phylogeny, but is usually regarded as the earliest branching of the eukaryotic clades. Under strictly anaerobic conditions, a mass spectrometric investigation of gas production indicated a low level of generation of dihydrogen (2 nmol x min(-1) per 10(7) organisms), about 10-fold lower than that in Trichomonas vaginalis under similar conditions. Hydrogen evolution was O2 sensitive, and inhibited by 100 microM metronidazole. Fluorescent labelling of G. intestinalis cells using monoclonal antibodies to typical hydrogenosomal enzymes from T. vaginalis (malate enzyme, and succinyl-CoA synthetase alpha and beta subunits), and to the large-granule fraction (hydrogenosome-enriched, also from T. vaginalis) gave no discrete localization of epitopes. Cell-free extracts prepared under anaerobic conditions showed the presence of a CO-sensitive hydrogenase activity. This first report of hydrogen production in a eukaryote with no recognizable hydrogenosomes raises further questions about the early branching status of G. intestinalis; the physiological characterization of its hydrogenase, and its recently elucidated gene sequence, will aid further phylogenetic investigations.
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- David Lloyd
- Microbiology (BIOSI 1, Main Building), Cardiff University, PO Box 915, Cardiff CF10 3TL, Wales, UK1
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- Microbiology (BIOSI 1, Main Building), Cardiff University, PO Box 915, Cardiff CF10 3TL, Wales, UK1
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- Microbiology (BIOSI 1, Main Building), Cardiff University, PO Box 915, Cardiff CF10 3TL, Wales, UK1
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Florin L, Tsokoglou A, Happe T. A novel type of iron hydrogenase in the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus is linked to the photosynthetic electron transport chain. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:6125-32. [PMID: 11096090 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m008470200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Hydrogen evolution is observed in the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus after a phase of anaerobic adaptation. In this study we report the biochemical and genetical characterization of a new type of iron hydrogenase (HydA) in this photosynthetic organism. The monomeric enzyme has a molecular mass of 44.5 kDa. The complete hydA cDNA of 2609 base pairs comprises an open reading frame encoding a polypeptide of 448 amino acids. The protein contains a short transit peptide that routes the nucleus encoded hydrogenase to the chloroplast. Antibodies raised against the iron hydrogenase from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii react with both the isolated and in Escherichia coli overexpressed protein of S. obliquus as shown by Western blotting. By analyzing 5 kilobases of the genomic DNA, the transcription initiation site and five introns within hydA were revealed. Northern experiments suggest that hydA transcription is induced during anaerobic incubation. Alignments of S. obliquus HydA with known iron hydrogenases and sequencing of the N terminus of the purified protein confirm that HydA belongs to the class of iron hydrogenases. The C terminus of the enzyme including the catalytic site (H cluster) reveals a high degree of identity to iron hydrogenases. However, the lack of additional Fe-S clusters in the N-terminal domain indicates a novel pathway of electron transfer. Inhibitor experiments show that the ferredoxin PetF functions as natural electron donor linking the enzyme to the photosynthetic electron transport chain. PetF probably binds to the hydrogenase through electrostatic interactions.
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- L Florin
- Botanisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Karlrobert-Kreiten-Strasse 13, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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Wünschiers R, Senger H, Schulz R. Electron pathways involved in H(2)-metabolism in the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1503:271-8. [PMID: 11115639 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(00)00204-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The green alga Scenedesmus obliquus is capable of both uptake and production of H(2) after anaerobic adaptation (photoreduction of CO(2) or photohydrogen production). The essential enzyme for H(2)-metabolism is a NiFe-hydrogenase with a [2Fe-2S]-ferredoxin as its natural redox partner. Western blot analysis showed that the hydrogenase is constitutively expressed. The K(m) values were 79.5 microM and 12.5 microM, determined with ferredoxin and H(2), respectively, as electron donor for the hydrogenase. In vitro, NADP(+) was reduced by H(2) in the presence of the hydrogenase, the ferredoxin and a ferredoxin-NADP reductase. From these results and considerations on the stoichiometry we propose that this light-independent electron transfer is part of the photoreduction of CO(2) in vivo. For ATP synthesis, necessary for the photoreduction of CO(2), light-dependent cyclic electron transfer around Photosystem (PS) I accompanies this 'dark reaction'. PS II fluorescence data suggest that (a) in S. obliquus H(2)-reduction might function as the anaerobic counterpart of the O(2)-dependent Mehler reaction, and (b) the presence of either a ferredoxin quinone-reductase or NAD(P)-dehydrogenase (complex I) in S. obliquus chloroplasts.
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- R Wünschiers
- Fachbereich Biologie/Botanik, Philipps-Universität, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse, D-35032, Marburg, Germany.
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Wünschiers R, Heide H, Follmann H, Senger H, Schulz R. Redox control of hydrogenase activity in the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus by thioredoxin and other thiols. FEBS Lett 1999; 455:162-4. [PMID: 10428493 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00867-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The activity of the NiFe-hydrogenase from the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus is inhibited by both algal thioredoxins f and I+II, and by Escherichia coli thioredoxin. The strongest inhibition was observed with homologous chloroplastic thioredoxin f (I50 = 21 nM) and E. coli thioredoxin (I50 = 83 nM). For the homologous cytoplasmic thioredoxins I+II an I50 of 667 nM was determined. Glutathione shows a similar but much less pronounced inhibitory effect whereas dithiothreitol had no effect. In addition to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, NiFe-hydrogenase is only the second enzyme known to be inhibited by reduced thioredoxin.
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- R Wünschiers
- Fachbereich Biologie/Botanik, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
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Ueno Y, Kurano N, Miyachi S. Purification and characterization of hydrogenase from the marine green alga, Chlorococcum littorale. FEBS Lett 1999; 443:144-8. [PMID: 9989593 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)01699-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hydrogenase from the marine green alga, Chlorococcum littorale, was purified 1485-fold, resulting in a specific activity for hydrogen evolution of 75.7 micromol/min/mg of protein at 25 degrees C, using reduced methyl viologen as an electron donor. The K(m) value for methyl viologen was 0.5 mM. The purity of the enzyme was judged by native PAGE. The molecular weight was estimated to be 55 kDa by SDS-PAGE, and 57 kDa by gel filtration. The optimum temperature and pH value for hydrogen evolution were 50 degrees C and 7.5, respectively. The partially purified hydrogenase catalyzed hydrogen evolution from ferredoxin that had been isolated from the same cells, but not from NADH or NADPH. The K(m) value for ferredoxin was 0.68 microM. The enzyme was extremely oxygen sensitive, losing over 95% of its activity upon exposure to air within minutes, even at 4 degrees C. Two peptide fragments were obtained from the hydrogenase protein digested enzymatically, and their amino acid sequences were determined. No significant homology was found to any other known sequences of hydrogenases.
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- Y Ueno
- Marine Biotechnology Institute, Kamaishi Laboratories, Iwate, Japan.
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Appel J, Schulz R. Hydrogen metabolism in organisms with oxygenic photosynthesis: hydrogenases as important regulatory devices for a proper redox poising? JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s1011-1344(98)00179-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Quinn JM, Merchant S. Copper-responsive gene expression during adaptation to copper deficiency. Methods Enzymol 1998; 297:263-79. [PMID: 9750208 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(98)97020-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- J M Quinn
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
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Happe T, Mosler B, Naber JD. Induction, localization and metal content of hydrogenase in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1994; 222:769-74. [PMID: 8026490 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.tb18923.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The hydrogenase enzyme occurring in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is induced by anaerobic adaptation of the cells. In aerobically growing cells, antibodies against the hydrogenase failed to detect either active or inactive enzyme. However, already 10 min after the onset of anaerobic adaptation, the protein could be detected. The maximal amount of enzyme was reached after 2-3 hours anaerobiosis. Addition of nickel or iron to the growth medium did not influence activity. In atomic absorption experiments, a Ni/Fe ratio of about 1:250 was measured. We, therefore, propose the hydrogenase from C. reinhardtii to be of the Fe-only type. Adaptation in the presence of uncouplers of phosphorylation showed this process to be energy-dependent. From protein synthesis inhibition experiments, it is concluded that the protein is synthesized on cytoplasmic ribosomes and, therefore, must be nuclear encoded. After isolation of intact chloroplasts from adapted cells, the active enzyme was shown, by Western-blotting analysis, to be located in the chloroplasts.
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- T Happe
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Germany
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