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  • Title: The structurally unique photosynthetic Chlorella variabilis NC64A hydrogenase does not interact with plant-type ferredoxins.
    Author: Engelbrecht V, Rodríguez-Maciá P, Esselborn J, Sawyer A, Hemschemeier A, Rüdiger O, Lubitz W, Winkler M, Happe T.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg; 2017 Sep; 1858(9):771-778. PubMed ID: 28647463.
    Abstract:
    Hydrogenases from green algae are linked to the photosynthetic electron transfer chain via the plant-type ferredoxin PetF. In this work the [FeFe]-hydrogenase from the Trebouxiophycean alga Chlorella variabilis NC64A (CvHydA1), which in contrast to other green algal hydrogenases contains additional FeS-cluster binding domains, was purified and specific enzyme activities for both hydrogen (H2) production and H2 oxidation were determined. Interestingly, although C. variabilis NC64A, like many Chlorophycean algal strains, exhibited light-dependent H2 production activity upon sulfur deprivation, CvHydA1 did not interact in vitro with several plant-type [2Fe-2S]-ferredoxins, but only with a bacterial2[4Fe4S]-ferredoxin. In an electrochemical characterization, the enzyme exhibited features typical of bacterial [FeFe]-hydrogenases (e.g. minor anaerobic oxidative inactivation), as well as of algal enzymes (very high oxygen sensitivity).
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