Posewitz MC, King PW, Smolinski SL, Smith RD, Ginley AR, Ghirardi ML, Seibert M. Identification of genes required for hydrogenase activity in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Biochem Soc Trans 2005;
33:102-4. [PMID:
15667277 DOI:
10.1042/bst0330102]
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Abstract
The eukaryotic green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, produces H(2) under anaerobic conditions, in a reaction catalysed by an [FeFe]-hydrogenase. To identify genes that influence H(2) production in C. reinhardtii, a library of 6000 colonies on agar plates was screened with sensitive chemochromic H(2)-sensor films for clones defective in H(2) production. Two mutants of particular interest were fully characterized. One mutant, hydEF-1, is unable to assemble an active [FeFe]-hydrogenase. This is the first reported C. reinhardtii mutant that is not capable of producing any H(2). The second mutant, sta7-10, is not able to accumulate insoluble starch and has significantly lowered H(2)-photoproduction rates in comparison with the wild-type. In hydEF-1, anaerobiosis induces transcription of the two reported C. reinhardtii hydrogenase genes, HydA1 and HydA2, indicating a normal transcriptional response to anaerobiosis. In contrast, the transcription of both hydrogenase genes in sta7-10 is significantly attenuated.
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