The purification of hydrogenase II (uptake hydrogenase) from the anaerobic N2-fixing bacterium Clostridium pasteurianum |
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Authors: | Michael W.W. Adams Leonard E. Mortenson |
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Affiliation: | Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Clinton Township, Rte 22 East, Annandale, NJ 08801 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The H2 uptake activity (units/mg protein) of Clostridium pasteurianum cells with methylene blue as the electron acceptor increases with cell density independent of the growth conditions. The H2 evolution activity (units/mg protein) of the same cells with reduced methyl viologen as the electron donor remains fairly constant under all growth conditions tested. Cells grown under N2-fixing conditions have the highest H2 uptake activity and were used for the purification of hydrogenase II (uptake hydrogenase). Attempts to separate hydrogenase II from hydrogenase I (bidirectional hydrogenase) by a previously published method were unreliable. We report here a new large-scale purification procedure which employs a rapid membrane filtration system to fractionate cell-free extracts. Hydrogenases I and II were easily filtered into the low-molecular-weight fraction (Mr less than 100 000), and from this, hydrogenase II was further purified to a homogeneous state. Hydrogenase II is a monomeric iron-sulfur protein of molecular weight 53 000 containing eight iron atoms and eight acid-labile sulfur atoms per molecule. Hydrogenase II catalyzes both H2 oxidation and H2 evolution at rates of 3000 and 5.9 μmol H2 consumed or evolved/min per mg protein, respectively. The purification procedure for hydrogenase II using the filtration system described greatly facilitates the large-scale purification of hydrogenase I and other enzymes from cell-free extracts of C. pasteurianum. |
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Keywords: | Hydrogen uptake Nitrogen fixation Hydrogenase II purification (C. pasteurianum) |
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