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Identification of Electron Transfer in the System of Ferredoxins and Ferredoxin Reductases from Mycolicibacterium smegmatis
AbstractSteroid-26-monooxygenases belong to the cytochrome P450 superfamily and function as part of three-component systems together with ferredoxins...
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Overexpressing plant ferredoxin-like protein enhances photosynthetic efficiency and carbohydrates accumulation in Phalaenopsis
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is one of three major models of carbon dioxide assimilation pathway with better water-use efficiency and slower...
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EPR studies of ferredoxin in spinach and cyanobacterial thylakoids related to photosystem I-driven NADP+ reduction
Photosynthetic light-dependent reactions occur in thylakoid membranes where embedded proteins capture light energy and convert it to chemical energy...
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Structure of cyanobacterial photosystem I complexed with ferredoxin at 1.97 Å resolution
Photosystem I (PSI) is a light driven electron pump transferring electrons from Cytochrome c 6 (Cyt c 6 ) to Ferredoxin (Fd). An understanding of this...
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Is reduced ferredoxin the physiological electron donor for MetVF-type methylenetetrahydrofolate reductases in acetogenesis? A hypothesis
The methylene-tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is a key enzyme in acetogenic CO 2 fixation. The MetVF-type enzyme has been purified from four...
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Identification of functional cytochrome P450 and ferredoxin from Streptomyces sp. EAS-AB2608 by transcriptional analysis and their heterologous expression
AbstractBioconversion using microorganisms and their enzymes is an important tool in many industrial fields. The discovery of useful new microbial...
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An overview of the factors playing a role in cytochrome P450 monooxygenase and ferredoxin interactions
Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYPs/P450s) are heme-thiolate proteins that are ubiquitously present in organisms, including non-living entities such...
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The structure of a triple complex of plant photosystem I with ferredoxin and plastocyanin
The ability of photosynthetic organisms to use sunlight as a sole source of energy is endowed by two large membrane complexes—photosystem I (PSI) and...
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Cyanobakterien als nachhaltige Katalysatoren
Cyanobacteria can regenerate reaction equivalents like NADPH and ferredoxin by oxygenic photosynthesis; a unique process using light as energy source...
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Thermodynamics of ferredoxin binding to cyanobacterial nitrate reductase
The role of the seven negatively charged amino acids of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 ferredoxin (Fd), i.e., Glu29, Glu30, Asp60, Asp65, Asp66, Glu92,...
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Structural and Functional Dynamics of Microbial Photosystem Complexes
Photosynthesis involves two stages, the light reactions and the dark reactions that occur in thylakoid membranes and stroma, respectively. The...
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A Xanthomonas oryzae type III effector XopL causes cell death through mediating ferredoxin degradation in Nicotiana benthamiana
Plant pathogenic bacteria engage in an ongoing struggle for survival. Gram negative phytopathogenic prokaryotes deploy type III secretion system to...
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Changing the tracks: screening for electron transfer proteins to support hydrogen production
AbstractFerredoxins are essential electron transferring proteins in organisms. Twelve plant-type ferredoxins in the green alga Chlamydomonas...
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Rubredoxin from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum donates a redox equivalent to the flavodiiron protein in an NAD(P)H dependent manner via ferredoxin-NAD(P)+ oxidoreductase
The green sulfur bacterium, Chlorobaculum tepidum , is an anaerobic photoautotroph that performs anoxygenic photosynthesis. Although genes encoding...
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The Polar Fox Lagoon in Siberia harbours a community of Bathyarchaeota possessing the potential for peptide fermentation and acetogenesis
Archaea belonging to the phylum Bathyarchaeota are the predominant archaeal species in cold, anoxic marine sediments and additionally occur in a...
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Contemplation of protein–protein interactions for salt tolerance in rice mutant lines
Proteome analyses of two contrasting mutant lines and their parent revealed responsive proteins in salt stress. The tandem mass spectrometry analysis...
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Structural Characterization of the Chlorophyllide a Oxygenase (CAO) Enzyme Through an In Silico Approach
Chlorophyllide a oxygenase (CAO) is responsible for converting chlorophyll a to chlorophyll b in a two-step oxygenation reaction. CAO belongs to the...
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Structural and functional analyses of Burkholderia pseudomallei BPSL1038 reveal a Cas-2/VapD nuclease sub-family
Burkholderia pseudomallei is a highly versatile pathogen with ~25% of its genome annotated to encode hypothetical proteins. One such hypothetical...
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Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of selenite reduction: transcriptomic analysis of Bacillus reveals the key role of sulfur assimilation
Selenite biotransformation by microorganisms is an effective detoxification and assimilation process. However, current knowledge of the molecular...
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Energy conservation under extreme energy limitation: the role of cytochromes and quinones in acetogenic bacteria
Acetogenic bacteria are a polyphyletic group of organisms that fix carbon dioxide under anaerobic, non-phototrophic conditions by reduction of two...
