Molecular biology of microbial hydrogenases

PM Vignais, A Colbeau - Current issues in molecular biology, 2004 - mdpi.com
Hydrogenases (H 2 ases) are metalloproteins. The great majority of them contain iron-sulfur
clusters and two metal atoms at their active center, either a Ni and an Fe atom, the [NiFe]-H 2 …

Classification and phylogeny of hydrogenases

PM Vignais, B Billoud, J Meyer - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Hydrogenases (H2ases) catalyze the reversible oxidation of molecular hydrogen and play a
central role in microbial energy metabolism. Most of these enzymes are found in Archaea …

Hydrogenases and H+-Reduction in Primary Energy Conservation

PM Vignais - Bioenergetics: energy conservation and conversion, 2007 - Springer
Hydrogenases are metalloenzymes subdivided into two classes that contain iron-sulfur
clusters and catalyze the reversible oxidation of hydrogen gas (H 2⇆ 2H++ 2e−). Two metal …

Hydrogenases from Methanogenic Archaea, Nickel, a Novel Cofactor, and H2 Storage

RK Thauer, AK Kaster, M Goenrich… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Most methanogenic archaea reduce CO2 with H2 to CH4. For the activation of H2, they use
different [NiFe]-hydrogenases, namely energy-converting [NiFe]-hydrogenases …

An Escherichia coli hydrogenase‐3‐type hydrogenase in methanogenic archaea

A Künkel, JA Vorholt, RK Thauer… - European journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Methanogenic archaea are known to contain two types of [NiFe] hydrogenases designated
F420‐reducing hydrogenase and F420‐non‐reducing hydrogenase. We report here that …

A third type of hydrogenase catalyzing H2 activation

S Shima, RK Thauer - The chemical record, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The activation of molecular hydrogen is of interest both from a chemical and biological
viewpoint. The covalent bond of H2 is strong (436 kJ mol− 1). Its cleavage is catalyzed by …

The iron-sulfur cluster-free hydrogenase (Hmd) is a metalloenzyme with a novel iron binding motif

M Korbas, S Vogt, W Meyer-Klaucke, E Bill… - Journal of biological …, 2006 - ASBMB
The iron-sulfur cluster-free hydrogenase (Hmd) from methanogenic archaea harbors an iron-
containing cofactor of yet unknown structure. X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the active, as …

The exchange activities of [Fe] hydrogenase (iron–sulfur-cluster-free hydrogenase) from methanogenic archaea in comparison with the exchange activities of [FeFe] …

S Vogt, EJ Lyon, S Shima, RK Thauer - JBIC Journal of Biological …, 2008 - Springer
Abstract [Fe] hydrogenase (iron–sulfur-cluster-free hydrogenase) catalyzes the reversible
reduction of methenyltetrahydromethanopterin (methenyl-H 4 MPT+) with H 2 to methylene …

UV‐A/blue‐light inactivation of the 'metal‐free'hydrogenase (Hmd) from methanogenic archaea: The enzyme contains functional iron after all

EJ Lyon, S Shima, G Buurman… - European Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
H2‐forming methylenetetrahydromethanopterin dehydrogenase (Hmd) is an unusual
hydrogenase present in many methanogenic archaea. The homodimeric enzyme dubbed …

High-Yield Expression of Heterologous [FeFe] Hydrogenases in Escherichia coli

JM Kuchenreuther, CS Grady-Smith, AS Bingham… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background The realization of hydrogenase-based technologies for renewable H2
production is presently limited by the need for scalable and high-yielding methods to supply …