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  • Title: An [Fe] hydrogenase from the anaerobic hydrogenosome-containing fungus Neocallimastix frontalis L2.
    Author: Davidson EA, van der Giezen M, Horner DS, Embley TM, Howe CJ.
    Journal: Gene; 2002 Aug 21; 296(1-2):45-52. PubMed ID: 12383502.
    Abstract:
    Hydrogenases, oxygen-sensitive enzymes that can make hydrogen gas, are key to the function of hydrogen-producing organelles (hydrogenosomes), which occur in anaerobic eukaryotes scattered throughout the eukaryotic tree. All of the eukaryotic enzymes characterized so far are iron-only [Fe] hydrogenases. In contrast, it has previously been suggested that hydrogenosomes of the best-studied anaerobic fungus Neocallimastix frontalis L2 contain an unrelated iron-nickel-selenium [NiFeSe] hydrogenase. We have isolated a gene from strain L2 that encodes a putative protein containing all of the characteristic features of an iron-only [Fe] hydrogenase, including the cysteine residues required for the co-ordination of the unique 'hydrogen cluster'. As is the case for experimentally verified hydrogenosomal matrix enzymes from N. frontalis, the [Fe] hydrogenase encodes a plausible amino terminal extension that resembles mitochondrial targeting signals. Phylogenetic analyses of an expanded [Fe] hydrogenase dataset reveal a complicated picture that is difficult to interpret in the light of current ideas of species relationships. Nevertheless, our analyses cannot reject the hypothesis that the novel [Fe] hydrogenase gene of Neocallimastix is specifically related to other eukaryote [Fe] hydrogenases, and thus ultimately might be traced to the same ancestral source.
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