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  • 1
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    Purification and characterization of ferredoxin from Peptostreptococcus productus (strain Marburg) (1991)
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    Archives of microbiology 156 (1991), S. 422-426 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Peptostreptococcus productus (strain Marburg) ; Homoacetogenic bacteria ; Ferredoxin ; Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Ferredoxin was purified to apparent homogeneity from cell extracts of the homoacetogen Peptostreptococcus productus (strain Marburg). The yield was 70 μg ferredoxin per g wet cells of P. productus. The UV-vis spectrum exhibited characteristics of a typical clostridial ferredoxin spectrum with a molar extinction coefficient ε385 of ∼30000 M-1 cm-1 and an A385/A280 ratio of 0.76. The molecular weight Mr was near 5700 as calculated from the amino acid composition. The protein contained per mol 9.9 mol iron, 8.2 mol acid-labile sulfide, and near 7 mol cysteine indicating the presence of two 4 Fe/4 S clusters. The redox potential was determined to be-410 mV. The purified ferredoxin was reduced with carbon monoxide by the carbon monoxide dehydrogenase from crude extracts and by the partially enriched enzyme of P. productus.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00248721
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    Isolation and characterization of a methyl chloride utilizing, strictly anaerobic bacterium (1991)
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    Archives of microbiology 156 (1991), S. 416-421 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Methyl chloride utilization ; Homoacetogenic bacteria ; Anaerobic dehalogenation ; Strain MC ; Methylotrophic anaerobes ; Methoxylated aromatic compounds
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract From sludge obtained from the sewage digester plant in Stuttgart-Möhringen a strictly anaerobic bacterium was enriched and isolated with methyl chloride as the energy source. The isolate, which was tentatively called strain MC, was nonmotile, gram-positive, and occurred as elongated cocci arranged in chains. Cells of strain MC formed about 3 mol of acetate per 4 mol of CH3Cl consumed, indicating that the organism was a homoacetogenic bacterium fermenting methyl chloride plus CO2 according to: $$\begin{gathered} 4 CH_3 Cl + 2 CO_2 + 2 H_2 O \to 3 CH_3 COO^ - \hfill \\ + 7 H^ + + 4 Cl^ - . \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$ The organism grew with 2–3% methyl chloride in the gas phase at a doubling time of near 30 h. Dichloromethane was not utilized. The bacterium also grew on carbon monoxide, H2 plus CO2, and methoxylated aromatic compounds. Optimal growth with methyl chloride was observed at 25°C and pH 7.3–7.7. The G+C-content of the DNA was 47.5±1.5%. The methyl chloride conversion appeared to be inducible, since H2 plus CO2-grown cells lacked this ability. From the morphological and physiological characteristics, the isolate could not be affiliated to a known species.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00248720
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    Anaerobic transformation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) (1993)
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    Archives of microbiology 159 (1993), S. 345-353 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: TNT degradation ; Polynitroaromatic compounds ; Sulfite reductase ; Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase ; Hydrogenase ; Ferredoxin ; Sulfidogenic bacteria
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract A sulfate-reducing bacterium using trinitrotoluene (TNT) as the sole nitrogen source was isolated with pyruvate and sulfate as the energy sources. The organism was able to reduce TNT to triaminotoluene (TAT) in growing cultures and cell suspensions and to further transform TAT to still unknown products. Pyruvate, H2, or carbon monoxide served as the electron donors for the reduction of TNT. The limiting step in TNT conversion to TAT was the reduction of 2,4-diamino-6-nitrotoluene (2,4-DANT) to triaminotoluene. The reduction proceeded via 2,4-diamino-6-hydroxylaminotoluene (DAHAT) as an intermediate. The intermediary formation of DAHAT was only observed in the presence of carbon monoxide or hydroxylamine, respectively. The reduction of DAHAT to triaminotoluene was inhibited by both CO and NH2OH. The inhibitors as well as DANT and DAHAT significantly inhibited sulfide formation from sulfite. The data were taken as evidence for the involvement of dissimilatory sulfite reductase in the reduction of DANT and/or DAHAT to triaminotoluene. Hydrogenase purified from Clostridium pasteurianum and carbon monoxide dehydrogenase partially purified from Clostridium thermoaceticum also catalyzed the reduction of DANT in the presence of methyl viologen or ferredoxin, however, as the main reduction product DAHAT rather than triaminotoluene was formed. The findings could explain the function of CO as an electron donor for the DANT reduction (to DAHAT) and the concomitant inhibitory effect of CO on triaminotoluene formation (from DAHAT) by the inhibition of sulfite reductase. Triaminotoluene is further anaerobically converted to unknown products by the isolate under sulfate-reducing and by a Pseudomonas strain under denitrifying conditions. Triaminotoluene conversion was also catalyzed in the absence of cells under aerobic conditions by trace elements, especially by Mn2+, accompanied by the elimination of ammonia in a stoichiometry of 1 NH3 released per TAT transformed. The results might be of interest for the bioremediation of wastewater polluted with nitroaromatic compounds.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00290917
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    Thermodynamics of methylenetetrahydrofolate reduction to methyltetrahydrofolate and its implications for the energy metabolism of homoacetogenic bacteria (1991)
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    Archives of microbiology 155 (1991), S. 378-381 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Methylenetetrahydrofolate ; Methyltetrahydrofolate ; Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase ; Homoacetogenic bacteria ; Energy conservation of homoacetogens
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The thermodynamics of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reduction to 5-methyltetrahydrofolate was studied with the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase purified from the homoacetogenic bacterium Peptostreptococcus productus. The equilibrium constants were determined for the forward and backward reactions of methylenetetrahydrofolate reduction with NADH or acetylpyridine adenine dinucleotide (APADH), respectively, as the electron donors. From the equilibrium constants and the known standard redox potentials at pH 7 (E o′ ) of the couples NAD+/NADH or APAD+/APADH the E o′ of the couple methylene-/methyltetrahydrofolate was determined to be about-200mV. This value is different from values reported before for this couple. The implications for the mechanism of energy conservation of homoacetogens is discussed.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00243458
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    Studies on tetrachloroethene respiration inDehalospirillum multivorans (1996)
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    Archives of microbiology 166 (1996), S. 379-387 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Dehalospirillum multivorans ; Reductive dechlorination ; Tetrachloroethene respiration ; Trichloroethene ; PCE dehalogenase ; Formate dehydrogenase ; Fumarate respiration ; Hydrogenase ; Electron transport chain ; Reversed electron flow ; Ferredoxin ; Menaquinone
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Tetrachloroethene (PCE) respiration was studied in the tetrachloroethene-utilizing anaerobe,Dehalospirillum multivorans, with respect to localization of the catabolic enzymes, the electron carriers potentially involved in electron transport, and the response to ionophores and specific inhibitors. Hydrogenase and formate dehydrogenase were recovered in the periplasmic cell fraction and were membrane-associated. Electron-accepting tetrachloroethene dehalogenase was found in the cytoplasmic fraction. In the PCE dehalogenase assay, only artificial electron donors with a standard redox potential of 〈-360 mV were effective electron donors for PCE reduction. Besides these artificial reductants, ferredoxin isolated fromD. multivorans (E′o=-445 mV) could serve as electron donor for PCE reduction. However, the reaction rate with ferredoxin was only 1% of that with methyl viologen, whereas the pyruvate-ferredoxin oxidoreductase exhibited almost the same reaction rates with methyl viologen and ferredoxin as electron acceptors for pyruvate oxidation. Reduced menadione (2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone) did not serve as electron donor in the PCE dehalogenase reaction. 2-Heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide (HOQNO) had no significant effect on PCE dechlorination in cell suspensions and in crude extracts. Whole cells catalyzed the reductive dechlorination of PCE with H2 or formate as electron donors. The dechlorination in cell suspensions rather than in cell extracts was inhibited by the ionophores carbonylcyanide-p-(trifluoromethoxy)-phenylhydrazone (FCCP) and tetrachlorosalicylanilide (TCS), indicating that a membrane potential and/or a pH gradient may be required for the reaction in vivo.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01682983
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    Acetate formation from CO and CO2 by cell extracts of Peptostreptococcus productus (strain Marburg) (1991)
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    Archives of microbiology 156 (1991), S. 75-80 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Homoacetogenic bacteria ; Acetate synthesis from CO ; Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase ; Carbonylation reaction ; Peptostreptococcus productus (strain Marburg) ; Tetrahydrofolate enzymes
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Cell extracts of Peptostreptococcus productus (strain Marburg) obtained from CO grown cells mediated the synthesis of acetate from CO plus CO2 at rates of 50 nmol/min × mg of cell protein. 14CO was specifically incorporated into C1 of acetate. No label exchange occurred between 14C1 of acetyl-CoA and CO, indicating that 14CO incorporation into acetate was by net synthesis rather than by an exchange reaction. In acetate synthesis from CO plus CO2 the latter substrate could be replaced to some extent by formate or methyl tetrahydrofolate as the methyl donor. The methyl group of methyl cobalamin was incorporated into acetate ony at very low activities. The cell extracts contained high levels of enzyme activities involved in acetate or cell carbon synthesis from CO2. The following enzymic activities were detected: CO: methyl viologen oxidoreductase, formate dehydrogenase, formyl tetrahydrofolate synthetase, methenyl tetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase, methylene tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase, methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase, phosphate acetyltransferase, acetate kinase, hydrogenase, NADPH: benzyl viologen oxidoreductase, and pyruvate synthase. Some kinetic and other properties were studied.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00418191
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    Methyl chloride metabolism of the strictly anaerobic, methyl chloride-utilizing homoacetogen strain MC (1993)
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    Archives of microbiology 160 (1993), S. 383-387 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Homoacetogenic bacteria ; Acetate formation from methyl chloride ; Strain MC ; Tetrahydrofolate enzymes ; Methyl tetrahydrofolate foramtion ; Anaerobic dechlorination ; O-demethylation of methoxylated aromatics
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The methyl chloride metabolism of the homoacetogenic, methyl chloride-utilizing strain MC was investigated with cell extracts and cell suspensions of the organism. Cell extracts were found to contain all enzyme activities required for the conversion of methyl chloride or of H2 plus CO2 to acetate. They catalyzed the dechlorination of methyl chloride with tetrahydrofolate as the methyl acceptor at a rate of ∼20 nmol/min × mg of cell protein. Also, the O-demethylation of vanillate with tetrahydrofolate could be measured at a rate of 40 nmol/min × mg. Different enzyme systems appeared to be responsible for the dehalogenation of CH3Cl and for the O-demethylation of methoxylated aromatic compounds, since cells grown with methoxylated aromatic compounds exhibited a significantly lower activity of CH3Cl conversion than methyl chloride grown cells and vice versa. In addition, ammonium thiocyanate (5 mM) completely inhibited CH3Cl dechlorination, whereas the consumption of vanillate was not affected significantly. The data were taken to indicate, that the methyl chloride dehalogenation is catalyzed by a specific, inducible enzyme present in strain MC, and that tetrahydrofolate rather than the corrinoid-protein involved in acetate formation is the primary acceptor of the methyl group in the dechlorination reaction.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00252225
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