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Wang L, Liu H. Microbial electrosynthesis of single cell protein and methane by coupling fast-growing Methanococcus maripaludis with microbial electrolysis cells. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2024; 393:130025. [PMID: 37972904 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.130025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2023] [Revised: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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Single cell protein (SCP) is a promising alternative protein source, as its production bypasses the disadvantages of animal protein production in industrial agriculture. Coupling a fast-growing hydrogen consuming organism with microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) could be a viable method for SCP production. In this study, a fast-growing and protein-rich methanogen, Methanococcus maripaludis was selected as the primary SCP source. The inoculation of M. maripaludis in MECs triggered cell synthesis with methane production. The doubling time measured was 11.2 h and the specific growth rate was 0.062 1/h. The highest SCP production rate was 13.7 mg/L/h. In the dried biomass, the weight of protein was over 60 %. Amino acid profiling of the harvested biomass demonstrated high abundance of essential amino acids. The electron flux analysis indicated that 31.3 % electrons in the electrochemical systems were directed into SCP synthesis. These results illustrated the potential for SCP production by coupling a fast-growing methanogen with MECs.
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- Luguang Wang
- Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States; Department of Biological Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, United States
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- Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States.
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Sarhangi SM, Matyushov DV. Comment on "Applicability of perturbed matrix method for charge transfer studies at bio/metallic interfaces: a case of azurin" by O. Kontkanen, D. Biriukov and Z. Futera, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2023, 25, 12479. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:26923-26928. [PMID: 37782532 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03178k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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Polarizability is a fundamental property of all molecular systems describing the deformation of the molecular electronic density in response to an applied electric field. The question of whether polarizability of the active site needs to be included in theories of enzymatic activity remains open. Hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical calculations are hampered by difficulties faced by many quantum-chemistry algorithms to provide sufficiently accurate estimates of the anisotropic second-rank tensor of molecular polarizability. In this Comment, we provide general theoretical arguments for the values of polarizability of the quantum region or a molecule which have to be reproduced by electronic structure calculations.
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- Setare Mostajabi Sarhangi
- School of Molecular Sciences and Department of Physics, Arizona State University, PO Box 871504, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504, USA.
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- School of Molecular Sciences and Department of Physics, Arizona State University, PO Box 871504, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504, USA.
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Sanfui S, Chakraborty P, Garribba E, Rath SP. Diheme cytochromes: Effect of mixed-axial ligation on the electronic structure and electrochemical properties with cobalt porphyrin dimer. J Inorg Biochem 2023; 240:112109. [PMID: 36592509 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2022.112109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 12/11/2022] [Accepted: 12/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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A series of six-coordinate diCo(III) porphyrin dimers, as synthetic analogues of diheme cytochromes, have been reported here having bis(imidazole), bis(pyridine) and mixed thiophenolate-pyridine/imidazole axial ligands. In the X-ray structures of bis(imidazole) and bis(pyridine) complexes, the axial ligands are in perpendicular orientation while they are parallelly oriented in their monomeric analog. The porphyrin rings are also highly ruffle-distorted in dimer but planar in monomer which reflect the effect of intramolecular interaction between two Co(porphyrin) units in dimers. In the X-ray structure of diCo(III) thiophenolate-pyridine mixed-ligated complex, the axial Co-S and Co-N(py) distances are 2.256(1) and 2.063(2) Å, respectively. The Co-N(py) distance of 2.063(2) Å is much longer than the distances of 1.961(3) and 1.972(3) Å observed in bis(pyridine) complex and the Co-S distance is larger than Co-N(py) in the mixed ligated complex which results in a displacement of Co by 0.15 Å towards the pyridine ligand from the mean porphyrin plane. Indeed, this is the first X-ray structure of a metalloporphyrin with mixed thiophenolate-pyridine axial ligands. The effect of mixed-axial ligation is demonstrated by a blue-shift of the Soret band in the UV-visible spectroscopy and also a positive shift of the Co(III)/Co(II) redox couple as compared to their bis(pyridine) analogue. The redox potentials are shifted to a large negative value just upon replacing the metal from iron to cobalt. The present investigation emphasizes the role of axial ligation, metal ions, and also the effect of heme-heme interaction in controlling the spectral and electrochemical properties.
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- Sarnali Sanfui
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Dipartimento di Medicina, Chirurgia e Farmacia, Università di Sassari, Viale San Pietro, I-07100 Sassari, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India.
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Zhong F, Albert T, Moënne-Loccoz P, Pletneva EV. Influence of the Interdomain Interface on Structural and Redox Properties of Multiheme Proteins. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:20949-20963. [PMID: 36493379 PMCID: PMC11034829 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Multiheme proteins are important in energy conversion and biogeochemical cycles of nitrogen and sulfur. A diheme cytochrome c4 (c4) was used as a model to elucidate roles of the interdomain interface on properties of iron centers in its hemes A and B. Isolated monoheme domains c4-A and c4-B, together with the full-length diheme c4 and its Met-to-His ligand variants, were characterized by a variety of spectroscopic and stability measurements. In both isolated domains, the heme iron is Met/His-ligated at pH 5.0, as in the full-length c4, but becomes His/His-ligated in c4-B at higher pH. Intradomain contacts in c4-A are minimally affected by the separation of c4-A and c4-B domains, and isolated c4-A is folded. In contrast, the isolated c4-B is partially unfolded, and the interface with c4-A guides folding of this domain. The c4-A and c4-B domains have the propensity to interact even without the polypeptide linker. Thermodynamic cycles have revealed properties of monomeric folded isolated domains, suggesting that ferrous (FeII), but not ferric (FeIII) c4-A and c4-B, is stabilized by the interface. This study illustrates the effects of the interface on tuning structural and redox properties of multiheme proteins and enriches our understanding of redox-dependent complexation.
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- Fangfang Zhong
- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, United States
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- Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, United States
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- Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, United States
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Zhuang Z, Xia X, Yang G, Zhuang L. The Role of Exopolysaccharides in Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:927246. [PMID: 35783440 PMCID: PMC9244359 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.927246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) is an effective mechanism for microbial species to exchange electrons cooperatively during syntrophic metabolism. It is generally accepted that DIET is mainly mediated by electrically conductive pili and outer surface c-type cytochromes (c-Cyts). However, as an extracellular matrix is ubiquitous and abundant on the surface of microorganisms, the effect and mechanism of exopolysaccharides on DIET are still unclear. This study constructed a co-culture of exopolysaccharides-deficient Geobacter sulfurreducens with Geobacter metallireducens to explore the role of exopolysaccharides in DIET. Results revealed that the deficiency of exopolysaccharides extended the metabolic period of the co-culture by 44.4% and changed the proportions of each species in the co-culture. The exopolysaccharides-deficient co-culture failed to form large, tight spherical aggregates and the expression of c-Cyts and pili was decreased. The addition of magnetite and granular activated carbon (GAC), respectively, might compensate for the functions of c-Cyts and pili in the first generation of co-culture, but the stimulatory effect on the metabolic stable period co-culture was fairly limited. These findings demonstrate that non-conductive exopolysaccharides are an important component of DIET aggregates and an extracellular matrix for DIET-required c-Cyts.
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Zhuang Z, Yang G, Zhuang L. Exopolysaccharides matrix affects the process of extracellular electron transfer in electroactive biofilm. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 806:150713. [PMID: 34606863 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2021] [Revised: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The applications of bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) in the field of environment and energy are achieved through the bioelectrocatalytic process of electroactive biofilms. As a primary component of biofilm, the role of exopolysaccharides in electroactive biofilm in BESs is poorly understood. This study constructed an exopolysaccharides-deficient Geobacter sulfurreducens-based BES to explore the role of exopolysaccharides in electroactive biofilm. Compared with the wild type, the mutant biofilm expressing less exopolysaccharides decreased the capacity of current generation. In the mutant biofilm, the content of exopolysaccharides decreased significantly, resulting in a thinner biofilm and lower cell viability compared with the wild-type biofilm. However, the mutant with overexpressed pili developed a mature biofilm with extended time, which indicating the importance of exopolysaccharides for early biofilm formation and the compensatory role of pili in biofilm formation. The mutant biofilm had less content of c-type cytochromes (c-Cyts) and lower electrochemical activity of extracellular polymeric substances than the wild-type biofilm, suggesting a function of exopolysaccharides anchoring extracellular c-Cyts that essential to extracellular electron transfer (EET) in electroactive biofilms. Our findings demonstrated the essential role of exopolysaccharides in the process of EET in electroactive biofilm, which contributed to a better understanding and optimization of the performance of BESs.
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- Zheng Zhuang
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health, School of Environment, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health, School of Environment, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health, School of Environment, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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From iron to bacterial electroconductive filaments: Exploring cytochrome diversity using Geobacter bacteria. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Di Rocco G, Battistuzzi G, Borsari M, Bortolotti CA, Ranieri A, Sola M. The enthalpic and entropic terms of the reduction potential of metalloproteins: Determinants and interplay. Coord Chem Rev 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Khan FST, Samanta D, Chandel D, Shah SJ, Rath SP. Heme-Heme Interactions in Diheme Cytochromes: Effect of Mixed-Axial Ligation on the Electronic Structure and Electrochemical Properties. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:12870-12882. [PMID: 34370470 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Diheme cytochromes, the simplest members in the multiheme family, play substantial biochemical roles in enzymatic catalysis as well as in electron transfer. A series of diiron(III) porphyrin dimers have been synthesized as active site analogues of diheme cytochromes. The complexes contain six-coordinated iron(III) having thiophenol and imidazole at the fifth and sixth coordination sites, respectively. The iron centers in the complexes have been found to be in a low-spin state, as confirmed through solid-state Mössbauer and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopic investigations. Mössbauer quadrupole splitting of complexes having mixed ligands is substantially larger than that observed when both axial ligands are the same. Rhombic types of EPR spectra with narrow separation between gx, gy, and gz clearly distinguish heme thiolate coordination compared to bis(imidazole)-ligated low-spin heme centers. The redox potential in diheme cytochromes has been found to be tuned by interheme interactions along with the nature of axial ligands. The effect of mixed-axial ligation within the diiron(III) porphyrin dimers is demonstrated by a positive shift in the Fe(III)/Fe(II) redox couple upon thiophenolate coordination compared to their bis(imidazole) analogues. The pKa of the imidazole also decides the extent of the shift for the Fe(III)/Fe(II) couple, while the potential of the mixed-ligated diiron(III) porphyrin dimer is more positive compared to their monomeric analogue. A variation of around 1.1 V for the Fe(III)/Fe(II) redox potential in the diiron(III) porphyrin dimer can be achieved with the combined effect of axial ligation and a metal spin state, while such a large variation in the redox potential, compared to their monomeric analogues, is attributed to the heme-heme interactions observed in dihemes. Moreover, theoretical calculations also support the experimental shifts in the redox potential values.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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Fernandes TM, Morgado L, Turner DL, Salgueiro CA. Protein Engineering of Electron Transfer Components from Electroactive Geobacter Bacteria. Antioxidants (Basel) 2021; 10:844. [PMID: 34070486 PMCID: PMC8227773 DOI: 10.3390/antiox10060844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2021] [Revised: 05/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Electrogenic microorganisms possess unique redox biological features, being capable of transferring electrons to the cell exterior and converting highly toxic compounds into nonhazardous forms. These microorganisms have led to the development of Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (METs), which include applications in the fields of bioremediation and bioenergy production. The optimization of these technologies involves efforts from several different disciplines, ranging from microbiology to materials science. Geobacter bacteria have served as a model for understanding the mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of extracellular electron transfer, which is highly dependent on a multitude of multiheme cytochromes (MCs). MCs are, therefore, logical targets for rational protein engineering to improve the extracellular electron transfer rates of these bacteria. However, the presence of several heme groups complicates the detailed redox characterization of MCs. In this Review, the main characteristics of electroactive Geobacter bacteria, their potential to develop microbial electrochemical technologies and the main features of MCs are initially highlighted. This is followed by a detailed description of the current methodologies that assist the characterization of the functional redox networks in MCs. Finally, it is discussed how this information can be explored to design optimal Geobacter-mutated strains with improved capabilities in METs.
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- Tomás M. Fernandes
- UCIBIO, Chemistry Department, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal; (T.M.F.); (L.M.)
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- UCIBIO, Chemistry Department, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal; (T.M.F.); (L.M.)
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Avenida da República (EAN), 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal;
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- UCIBIO, Chemistry Department, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal; (T.M.F.); (L.M.)
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Edwards MJ, Richardson DJ, Paquete CM, Clarke TA. Role of multiheme cytochromes involved in extracellular anaerobic respiration in bacteria. Protein Sci 2019; 29:830-842. [PMID: 31721352 PMCID: PMC7096707 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2019] [Revised: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 11/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Heme containing proteins are involved in a broad range of cellular functions, from oxygen sensing and transport to catalyzing oxidoreductive reactions. The two major types of cytochrome (b-type and c-type) only differ in their mechanism of heme attachment, but this has major implications for their cellular roles in both localization and mechanism. The b-type cytochromes are commonly cytoplasmic, or are within the cytoplasmic membrane, while c-type cytochromes are always found outside of the cytoplasm. The mechanism of heme attachment allows for complex c-type multiheme complexes, having the capacity to hold multiple electrons, to be assembled. These are increasingly being identified as secreted into the extracellular environment. For organisms that respire using extracellular substrates, these large multiheme cytochromes allow for electron transfer networks from the cytoplasmic membrane to the cell exterior for the reduction of extracellular electron acceptors. In this review the structures and functions of these networks and the mechanisms by which electrons are transferred to extracellular substrates is described.
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- Marcus J Edwards
- Centre for Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences and School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Centre for Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences and School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Centre for Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences and School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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Khan FST, Kumar A, Lai D, Rath SP. Ethene-bridged diiron porphyrin dimer as models of diheme cytochrome c: Structure-function correlation and modulation of heme redox potential. Inorganica Chim Acta 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2018.09.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Khan FST, Banerjee S, Kumar D, Rath SP. Diheme Cytochrome c: Structure–Function Correlation and Effect of Heme−Heme Interactions. Inorg Chem 2018; 57:11498-11510. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India
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- Department of Physics, School for Physical and Decision Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow-226025, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India
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Modulation of iron spin in ethane-bridged diiron(III) porphyrin dimer: anion dependent spin state switching. J CHEM SCI 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s12039-018-1488-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Lai D, Khan FST, Rath SP. Multiheme proteins: effect of heme–heme interactions. Dalton Trans 2018; 47:14388-14401. [DOI: 10.1039/c8dt00518d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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This Frontier illustrates a brief personal account on the effect of heme–heme interactions in dihemes which thereby discloses some of the evolutionary design principles involved in multiheme proteins for their diverse structures and functions.
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- Dipti Lai
- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Kanpur-208016
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Kanpur-208016
- India
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Oxo- and hydroxo-bridged diiron(III) porphyrin dimers: Inorganic and bio-inorganic perspectives and effects of intermacrocyclic interactions. Coord Chem Rev 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2017.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Bren KL. Going with the Electron Flow: Heme Electronic Structure and Electron Transfer in Cytochrome
c. Isr J Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201600021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Kara L. Bren
- Department of Chemistry University of Rochester Rochester NY 14627-0216 USA
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White GF, Edwards MJ, Gomez-Perez L, Richardson DJ, Butt JN, Clarke TA. Mechanisms of Bacterial Extracellular Electron Exchange. Adv Microb Physiol 2016; 68:87-138. [PMID: 27134022 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2016.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The biochemical mechanisms by which microbes interact with extracellular soluble metal ions and insoluble redox-active minerals have been the focus of intense research over the last three decades. The process presents two challenges to the microorganism. Firstly, electrons have to be transported at the cell surface, which in Gram-negative bacteria presents an additional problem of electron transfer across the ~6nm of the outer membrane. Secondly, the electrons must be transferred to or from the terminal electron acceptors or donors. This review covers the known mechanisms that bacteria use to transport electrons across the cell envelope to external electron donors/acceptors. In Gram-negative bacteria, electron transfer across the outer membrane involves the use of an outer membrane β-barrel and cytochrome. These can be in the form of a porin-cytochrome protein, such as Cyc2 of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, or a multiprotein porin-cytochrome complex like MtrCAB of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. For mineral-respiring organisms, there is the additional challenge of transferring the electrons from the cell to mineral surface. For the strict anaerobe Geobacter sulfurreducens this requires electron transfer through conductive pili to associated cytochrome OmcS that directly reduces Fe(III)oxides, while the facultative anaerobe S. oneidensis MR-1 accomplishes mineral reduction through direct membrane contact, contact through filamentous extensions and soluble flavin shuttles, all of which require the outer membrane cytochromes MtrC and OmcA in addition to secreted flavin.
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- G F White
- School of Biological Sciences and School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences and School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences and School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences and School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences and School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences and School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.
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Sil D, Rath SP. An ethane-bridged porphyrin dimer as a model of di-heme proteins: inorganic and bioinorganic perspectives and consequences of heme–heme interactions. Dalton Trans 2015; 44:16195-211. [DOI: 10.1039/c5dt00947b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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A brief account of our recent efforts on how inter-heme interactions can possibly change the structure and functional properties of the individual heme centers in a highly flexible ethane-bridged porphyrin dimer has been presented.
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- Debangsu Sil
- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Kanpur 208016
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Kanpur 208016
- India
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Sil D, Khan FST, Rath SP. Axial Thiophenolate Coordination on Diiron(III)bisporphyrin: Influence of Heme–Heme Interactions on Structure, Function and Electrochemical Properties of the Individual Heme Center. Inorg Chem 2014; 53:11925-36. [DOI: 10.1021/ic5011677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Debangsu Sil
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
, Kanpur-208016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
, Kanpur-208016, India
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Daidone I, Paltrinieri L, Amadei A, Battistuzzi G, Sola M, Borsari M, Bortolotti CA. Unambiguous Assignment of Reduction Potentials in Diheme Cytochromes. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:7554-7560. [DOI: 10.1021/jp506017a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Isabella Daidone
- Department
of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, via
Vetoio (Coppito 1), 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via Campi 183, 41125 Modena, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via Campi 183, 41125 Modena, Italy
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- Department
of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via Campi
183, 41125 Modena, Italy
- CNR-Nano Institute
of Nanoscience, via Campi 213/A, 41125 Modena, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via Campi 183, 41125 Modena, Italy
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- Department
of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, via Campi
183, 41125 Modena, Italy
- CNR-Nano Institute
of Nanoscience, via Campi 213/A, 41125 Modena, Italy
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De March M, Di Rocco G, Hickey N, Geremia S. High-resolution crystal structure of the recombinant diheme cytochrome c fromShewanella baltica(OS155). J Biomol Struct Dyn 2014; 33:395-403. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2014.880657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Dey S, Rath SP. Syn–anti conformational switching in an ethane-bridged Co(ii)bisporphyrin induced by external stimuli: effects of inter-macrocyclic interactions, axial ligation and chemical and electrochemical oxidations. Dalton Trans 2014; 43:2301-14. [DOI: 10.1039/c3dt52784k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Bhowmik S, Dey S, Sahoo D, Rath SP. Unusual Stabilization of an Intermediate Spin State of Iron upon the Axial Phenoxide Coordination of a Diiron(III)-Bisporphyrin: Effect of Heme-Heme Interactions. Chemistry 2013; 19:13732-44. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201301242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Robin S, Arese M, Forte E, Sarti P, Kolaj-Robin O, Giuffrè A, Soulimane T. Functional dissection of the multi-domain di-heme cytochrome c(550) from Thermus thermophilus. PLoS One 2013; 8:e55129. [PMID: 23383080 PMCID: PMC3561395 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2012] [Accepted: 12/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In bacteria, oxidation of sulfite to sulfate, the most common strategy for sulfite detoxification, is mainly accomplished by the molybdenum-containing sulfite:acceptor oxidoreductases (SORs). Bacterial SORs are very diverse proteins; they can exist as monomers or homodimers of their core subunit, as well as heterodimers with an additional cytochrome c subunit. We have previously described the homodimeric SOR from Thermus thermophilus HB8 (SOR(TTHB8)), identified its physiological electron acceptor, cytochrome c(550), and demonstrated the key role of the latter in coupling sulfite oxidation to aerobic respiration. Herein, the role of this di-heme cytochrome c was further investigated. The cytochrome was shown to be composed of two conformationally independent domains, each containing one heme moiety. Each domain was separately cloned, expressed in E. coli and purified to homogeneity. Stopped-flow experiments showed that: i) the N-terminal domain is the only one accepting electrons from SOR(TTHB8); ii) the N- and C-terminal domains are in rapid redox equilibrium and iii) both domains are able to transfer electrons further to cytochrome c(552), the physiological substrate of the ba(3) and caa(3) terminal oxidases. These findings show that cytochrome c(550) functions as a electron shuttle, without working as an electron wire with one heme acting as the electron entry and the other as the electron exit site. Although contribution of the cytochrome c(550) C-terminal domain to T. thermophilus sulfur respiration seems to be dispensable, we suggest that di-heme composition of the cytochrome physiologically enables storage of the two electrons generated from sulfite oxidation, thereof ensuring efficient contribution of sulfite detoxification to the respiratory chain-mediated energy generation.
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- Sylvain Robin
- Chemical and Environmental Science Department, Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences and Istituto Pasteur – Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences and Istituto Pasteur – Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences and Istituto Pasteur – Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari, Rome, Italy
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- Chemical and Environmental Science Department, Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari, Rome, Italy
- * E-mail: (AG); (TS)
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- Chemical and Environmental Science Department, Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
- * E-mail: (AG); (TS)
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Aklujkar M, Coppi MV, Leang C, Kim BC, Chavan MA, Perpetua LA, Giloteaux L, Liu A, Holmes DE. Proteins involved in electron transfer to Fe(III) and Mn(IV) oxides by Geobacter sulfurreducens and Geobacter uraniireducens. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2013; 159:515-535. [PMID: 23306674 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.064089-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Whole-genome microarray analysis of Geobacter sulfurreducens grown on insoluble Fe(III) oxide or Mn(IV) oxide versus soluble Fe(III) citrate revealed significantly different expression patterns. The most upregulated genes, omcS and omcT, encode cell-surface c-type cytochromes, OmcS being required for Fe(III) and Mn(IV) oxide reduction. Other electron transport genes upregulated on both metal oxides included genes encoding putative menaquinol : ferricytochrome c oxidoreductase complexes Cbc4 and Cbc5, periplasmic c-type cytochromes Dhc2 and PccF, outer membrane c-type cytochromes OmcC, OmcG and OmcV, multicopper oxidase OmpB, the structural components of electrically conductive pili, PilA-N and PilA-C, and enzymes that detoxify reactive oxygen/nitrogen species. Genes upregulated on Fe(III) oxide encode putative menaquinol : ferricytochrome c oxidoreductase complexes Cbc3 and Cbc6, periplasmic c-type cytochromes, including PccG and PccJ, and outer membrane c-type cytochromes, including OmcA, OmcE, OmcH, OmcL, OmcN, OmcO and OmcP. Electron transport genes upregulated on Mn(IV) oxide encode periplasmic c-type cytochromes PccR, PgcA, PpcA and PpcD, outer membrane c-type cytochromes OmaB/OmaC, OmcB and OmcZ, multicopper oxidase OmpC and menaquinone-reducing enzymes. Genetic studies indicated that MacA, OmcB, OmcF, OmcG, OmcH, OmcI, OmcJ, OmcM, OmcV and PccH, the putative Cbc5 complex subunit CbcC and the putative Cbc3 complex subunit CbcV are important for reduction of Fe(III) oxide but not essential for Mn(IV) oxide reduction. Gene expression patterns for Geobacter uraniireducens were similar. These results demonstrate that the physiology of Fe(III)-reducing bacteria differs significantly during growth on different insoluble and soluble electron acceptors and emphasize the importance of c-type cytochromes for extracellular electron transfer in G. sulfurreducens.
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- M Aklujkar
- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Western New England University, Springfield, MA 01119, USA
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On the road to improve the bioremediation and electricity-harvesting skills of Geobacter sulfurreducens: functional and structural characterization of multihaem cytochromes. Biochem Soc Trans 2012; 40:1295-301. [DOI: 10.1042/bst20120099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Extracellular electron transfer is one of the physiological hallmarks of Geobacter sulfurreducens, allowing these bacteria to reduce toxic and/or radioactive metals and grow on electrode surfaces. Aiming to functionally optimize the respiratory electron-transfer chains, such properties can be explored through genetically engineered strains. Geobacter species comprise a large number of different multihaem c-type cytochromes involved in the extracellular electron-transfer pathways. The functional characterization of multihaem proteins is particularly complex because of the coexistence of several microstates in solution, connecting the fully reduced and oxidized states. NMR spectroscopy has been used to monitor the stepwise oxidation of each individual haem and thus to obtain information on each microstate. For the structural study of these proteins, a cost-effective isotopic labelling of the protein polypeptide chains was combined with the comparative analysis of 1H-13C HSQC (heteronuclear single-quantum correlation) NMR spectra obtained for labelled and unlabelled samples. These new methodological approaches allowed us to study G. sulfurreducens haem proteins functionally and structurally, revealing functional mechanisms and key residues involved in their electron-transfer capabilities. Such advances can now be applied to the design of engineered haem proteins to improve the bioremediation and electricity-harvesting skills of G. sulfurreducens.
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Seidel J, Hoffmann M, Ellis KE, Seidel A, Spatzal T, Gerhardt S, Elliott SJ, Einsle O. MacA is a second cytochrome c peroxidase of Geobacter sulfurreducens. Biochemistry 2012; 51:2747-56. [PMID: 22417533 DOI: 10.1021/bi300249u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The metal-reducing δ-proteobacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens produces a large number of c-type cytochromes, many of which have been implicated in the transfer of electrons to insoluble metal oxides. Among these, the dihemic MacA was assigned a central role. Here we have produced G. sulfurreducens MacA by recombinant expression in Escherichia coli and have solved its three-dimensional structure in three different oxidation states. Sequence comparisons group MacA into the family of diheme cytochrome c peroxidases, and the protein indeed showed hydrogen peroxide reductase activity with ABTS(-2) as an electron donor. The observed K(M) was 38.5 ± 3.7 μM H(2)O(2) and v(max) was 0.78 ± 0.03 μmol of H(2)O(2)·min(-1)·mg(-1), resulting in a turnover number k(cat) = 0.46 · s(-1). In contrast, no Fe(III) reductase activity was observed. MacA was found to display electrochemical properties similar to other bacterial diheme peroxidases, in addition to the ability to electrochemically mediate electron transfer to the soluble cytochrome PpcA. Differences in activity between CcpA and MacA can be rationalized with structural variations in one of the three loop regions, loop 2, that undergoes conformational changes during reductive activation of the enzyme. This loop is adjacent to the active site heme and forms an open loop structure rather than a more rigid helix as in CcpA. For the activation of the protein, the loop has to displace the distal ligand to the active site heme, H93, in loop 1. A H93G variant showed an unexpected formation of a helix in loop 2 and disorder in loop 1, while a M297H variant that altered the properties of the electron transfer heme abolished reductive activation.
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- Julian Seidel
- Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstraße 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Hambsch N, Schmitt G, Jendrossek D. Development of a homologous expression system for rubber oxygenase RoxA from Xanthomonas sp. J Appl Microbiol 2011; 109:1067-75. [PMID: 20408935 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2010.04732.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIMS Natural rubber (poly-[cis-1,4-isoprene]) can be cleaved into 12-oxo-4,8-dimethyltrideca-4,8-diene-1-al by rubber oxygenase A (RoxA) isolated from Xanthomonas sp. RoxA is a novel type of dihaem dioxygenase with unknown cleavage mechanism of the rubber carbon backbone. Analysis of mutant RoxA after mutagenesis could be a way to investigate the function of selected amino acids of RoxA during catalysis. Unfortunately, expression of functional RoxA in recombinant Escherichia coli or in recombinant γ-Proteobacteria such as Pseudomonas putida was not possible in our hands. Therefore, expression of recombinant RoxA in the homologous host, Xanthomonas, was performed. METHODS AND RESULTS A transformation system via electroporation was established, and a conjugation system was optimized for Xanthomonas sp. Inactivation of the chromosomal roxA gene by insertional mutagenesis resulted in inability of Xanthomonas sp. to produce active RoxA and to utilize rubber as a sole source of carbon and energy. When an intact copy of roxA was cloned under control of a rhamnose-inducible promoter in a broad host range vector and was transferred to Xanthomonas sp., high expression levels of functional RoxA in the presence of rhamnose were obtained. CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY Purification of recombinantly expressed RoxA was simplified because of drastically shortened fermentation times and because separation of RoxA from remaining rubber latex particles was not necessary with rhamnose-induced cultures. About 6 mg purified RoxA were obtained from 1 l of cell-free culture fluid. Purified recombinant RoxA was highly active and revealed comparable spectral properties as RoxA purified from the wild type. The results of our study are the methodical basis for molecular biological manipulation in Xanthomonas sp. and will simplify investigation into the biochemical mechanisms by which rubber can be biodegraded in the environment by this novel extracellular dihaem dioxygenase RoxA.
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- N Hambsch
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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Einsle O. Structure and Function of Formate-Dependent Cytochrome c Nitrite Reductase, NrfA. Methods Enzymol 2011; 496:399-422. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-386489-5.00016-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Cloning, expression, and physicochemical characterization of a new diheme cytochrome c from Shewanella baltica OS155. J Biol Inorg Chem 2010; 16:461-71. [DOI: 10.1007/s00775-010-0742-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2010] [Accepted: 11/18/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Pokkuluri PR, Londer YY, Duke NEC, Pessanha M, Yang X, Orshonsky V, Orshonsky L, Erickson J, Zagyanskiy Y, Salgueiro CA, Schiffer M. Structure of a novel dodecaheme cytochrome c from Geobacter sulfurreducens reveals an extended 12 nm protein with interacting hemes. J Struct Biol 2010; 174:223-33. [PMID: 21130881 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.11.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2010] [Revised: 11/18/2010] [Accepted: 11/29/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Multiheme cytochromes c are important in electron transfer pathways in reduction of both soluble and insoluble Fe(III) by Geobacter sulfurreducens. We determined the crystal structure at 3.2Å resolution of the first dodecaheme cytochrome c (GSU1996) along with its N-terminal and C-terminal hexaheme fragments at 2.6 and 2.15Å resolution, respectively. The macroscopic reduction potentials of the full-length protein and its fragments were measured. The sequence of GSU1996 can be divided into four c(7)-type domains (A, B, C and D) with homology to triheme cytochromes c(7). In cytochromes c(7) all three hemes are bis-His coordinated, whereas in c(7)-type domains the last heme is His-Met coordinated. The full-length GSU1996 has a 12nm long crescent shaped structure with the 12 hemes arranged along a polypeptide to form a "nanowire" of hemes; it has a modular structure. Surprisingly, while the C-terminal half of the protein consists of two separate c(7)-type domains (C and D) connected by a small linker, the N-terminal half of the protein has two c(7)-type domains (A and B) that form one structural unit. This is also observed in the AB fragment. There is an unexpected interaction between the hemes at the interface of domains A and B, which form a heme-pair with nearly parallel stacking of their porphyrin rings. The hemes adjacent to each other throughout the protein are within van der Waals distance which enables efficient electron exchange between them. For the first time, the structural details of c(7)-type domains from one multiheme protein were compared.
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- P R Pokkuluri
- Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
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Schmitt G, Seiffert G, Kroneck PMH, Braaz R, Jendrossek D. Spectroscopic properties of rubber oxygenase RoxA from Xanthomonas sp., a new type of dihaem dioxygenase. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2010; 156:2537-2548. [PMID: 20413555 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.038992-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Natural rubber [poly-(cis-1,4-isoprene)] is cleaved to 12-oxo-4,8-dimethyltrideca-4,8-diene-1-al (ODTD) by rubber oxygenase A (RoxA) isolated from Xanthomonas sp. RoxA has two c-type haem centres that show two distinct alpha-bands at 549 and 553 nm in the dithionite-reduced state. A well-resolved midpoint potential (E(0)') of -65 mV was determined for one haem by spectrophotometric titrations in the absence of dioxygen with dithionite and ferricyanide as reductant and oxidant, respectively. The midpoint potential of the second haem was not resolvable (E(0)' about -130 to -160 mV). One of the two haems was reduced by NADH (549 nm alpha-band), similar to bacterial dihaem peroxidases. Evidence for an electron transfer between the two haems was provided by slow reduction of the second haem (553 nm alpha-band) upon incubation of the partially reduced enzyme at room temperature. Addition of imidazole or related compounds to RoxA led to UV/vis spectral features similar to those observed for partially reduced RoxA. Notably, reduction of RoxA with dithionite or NADH, or binding of compounds such as imidazole, resulted in a reversible inactivation of the enzyme, unlike dihaem peroxidases. In line with this result, RoxA did not show any peroxidase activity. EPR spectra of RoxA as isolated showed two low-spin Fe(III) haem centres, with apparent g-values of 3.39, 3.09, 2.23, 1.92 and 1.50. A weak signal in the g=6 region resulting from a high-spin Fe(III) haem was also observed with a preparation-dependent intensity that disappeared in the presence of imidazole. Attempts to provide spectroscopic evidence for binding of the natural substrate (polyisoprene latex) to RoxA failed. However, experimental data are presented that RoxA is able to subtract redox equivalents from its substrate or from model compounds. In conclusion, RoxA is a novel type of dihaem dioxygenase with features clearly different from classical cytochrome c peroxidases.
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- Georg Schmitt
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Fachbereich Biologie, Universität Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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A systematic investigation of multiheme c-type cytochromes in prokaryotes. J Biol Inorg Chem 2010; 15:559-71. [PMID: 20084531 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-010-0623-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2009] [Accepted: 01/04/2010] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Multiheme c-type cytochromes (MHCs) are metalloproteins that can play various biochemical roles, including enzymatic activity and electron transfer. As electron transfer proteins, the presence of multiple heme cofactors in the vicinity allows electrons to rapidly travel relatively long distances. MHCs are often characterized by relatively low structural complexity, with the heme cofactors being largely responsible for maintaining the structure in place, owing to the protein-heme covalent linkages. In this work, we analyzed an extensive ensemble of 594 complete prokaryotic proteomes, amounting to more than 1.9 million sequences, to characterize their content in MHCs. We identified 1,659 MHCs in 258 organisms. The presence of MHCs was found to correlate quite well with the capability of an organism to synthesize or take up heme. For two organisms, the presence of MHCs in the proteome could be taken as a hint to the presence of divergent heme uptake pathways. The most common numbers of heme-binding motifs in a sequence were four (25%) and two (23%), followed by five (13%) and ten (9.8%). The average protein-to-heme ratio was relatively similar for all MHCs, except diheme proteins, regardless of the number of motifs at around 60 +/- 30. The latter ratio could in favorable cases be a useful indicator for functional assignments of novel MHCs. Finally, we showed that the amount of structural information currently available for MHCs is limited with respect to the diversity of this broad class of metalloproteins. Experimental efforts in the structural investigation of MHCs are thus warranted.
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Arkhipova OV, Chuvochina MS, Trutko SM. Cytochromes c of the anaerobic methacrylate reducer Geobacter sulfurreducens AM-1. Microbiology (Reading) 2009. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026261709030060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Chan ACK, Lelj-Garolla B, I Rosell F, Pedersen KA, Mauk AG, Murphy MEP. Cofacial Heme Binding is Linked to Dimerization by a Bacterial Heme Transport Protein. J Mol Biol 2006; 362:1108-19. [PMID: 16950397 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2006] [Revised: 07/27/2006] [Accepted: 08/01/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Campylobacter jejuni is a leading bacterial cause of food-borne illness in the developed world. Like most pathogens, C. jejuni requires iron that must be acquired from the host environment. Although the iron preference of the food-borne pathogen C. jejuni is not established, this organism possesses heme transport systems to acquire iron. ChaN is an iron-regulated lipoprotein from C. jejuni proposed to be associated with ChaR, an outer-membrane receptor. Mutation of PhuW, a ChaN orthologue in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, compromises growth on heme as a sole iron source. The crystal structure of ChaN, determined to 1.9 A resolution reveals that ChaN is comprised of a large parallel beta-sheet with flanking alpha-helices and a smaller domain consisting of alpha-helices. Unexpectedly, two cofacial heme groups ( approximately 3.5 A apart with an inter-iron distance of 4.4 A) bind in a pocket formed by a dimer of ChaN monomers. Each heme iron is coordinated by a single tyrosine from one monomer, and the propionate groups are hydrogen bonded by a histidine and a lysine from the other monomer. Sequence analyses reveal that these residues are conserved among ChaN homologues from diverse bacterial origins. Electronic absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy are consistent with heme binding through tyrosine coordination by ChaN in solution yielding a high-spin heme iron structure in a pH-dependent equilibrium with a low-spin species. Analytical ultracentrifugation demonstrates that apo-ChaN is predominantly monomeric and that dimerization occurs with heme binding such that the stability constant for dimer formation increases by 60-fold.
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- Anson C K Chan
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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Upadhyay AK, Hooper AB, Hendrich MP. NO reductase activity of the tetraheme cytochrome C554 of Nitrosomonas europaea. J Am Chem Soc 2006; 128:4330-7. [PMID: 16569009 PMCID: PMC2806813 DOI: 10.1021/ja055183+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The tetraheme cytochrome c(554) (cyt c(554)) from Nitrosomonas europaea is believed to function as an electron-transfer protein from hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO). We show here that cyt c(554) also has significant NO reductase activity. The protein contains one high-spin and three low-spin c-type hemes. HAO catalyzed reduction of the cyt c(554), ligand binding, intermolecular electron transfer, and kinetics of NO reduction by cyt c(554) have been investigated. We detect the formation of a NO-bound ferrous heme species in cyt c(554) by EPR and Mössbauer spectroscopies during the HAO catalyzed oxidation of hydroxylamine, indicating that N-oxide intermediates produced from HAO readily bind to cyt c(554). In the half-reduced state of cyt c(554), we detect a spin interaction between the [FeNO](7) state of heme 2 and the low-spin ferric state of heme 4. We find that ferrous cyt c(554) will reduce NO at a rate greater than 16 s(-1), which is comparable to rates of other known NO reductases. Carbon monoxide or nitrite are shown not to bind to the reduced protein, and previous results indicate the reactions with O(2) are slow and that a variety of ligands will not bind in the oxidized state. Thus, the enzymatic site is highly selective for NO. The NO reductase activity of cyt c(554) may be important during ammonia oxidation in N. europaea at low oxygen concentrations to detoxify NO produced by reduction of nitrite or incomplete oxidation of hydroxylamine.
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- Anup K. Upadhyay
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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