Carriers in electron transport from molecular hydrogen to oxygen in Rhizobium japonicum bacteroids.
AUTOR(ES)
Eisbrenner, G
RESUMO
An investigation has been conducted to identify electron transport carriers that participate in the oxidation of H2 by H2 uptake-positive strains of Rhizobium japonicum bacteroids. We have observed that the reduced form of dibromothymoquinone at a concentration of 0.2 mM strongly inhibited H2 uptake, endogenous respiration, and C2H2 reduction by bacteroid suspensions. Reduced dibromothymoquinone, however, failed to inhibit the transfer of electrons from H2 to methylene blue under anaerobic conditions, indicating that the hydrogenase per se is insensitive to this inhibitor. Metronidazole, at 1 mM, affected rates of H2 uptake and endogenous respiration only slightly, but strongly inhibited C2H2 reduction. Evidence for H2-dependent cytochrome reduction in an H2 uptake-positive strain of R. japonicum bacteroids is presented. In kinetic studies, the rates of reduction of the type b and c cytochromes in the presence of H2 were shown to be severalfold higher than the rates due to endogenous respiration alone. With hydrogenase-deficient mutants of R. japonicum, no measurable effect of H2 on cytochrome reduction was observed. Our results indicate that ubiquinone and cytochromes of types b and c are involved in the oxyhydrogen reaction in R. japonicum.
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