Sustained photobiological hydrogen production in the presence of N2 by nitrogenase mutants of the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena |
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Authors: | Hajime Masukawa Hidehiro Sakurai Robert P Hausinger Kazuhito Inoue |
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Affiliation: | 1. Research Institute for Photobiological Hydrogen Production, Kanagawa University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1293, Japan;2. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA;3. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA;4. Department of Biological Sciences, Kanagawa University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1293, Japan |
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Abstract: | Heterocyst-forming cells of the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 ΔHup, lacking an uptake hydrogenase, photobiologically produce H2 by nitrogenase. Under N2-rich atmosphere, the nitrogenase activity declines in a rather short time due to the sufficiency of combined nitrogen. From the parental ΔHup strain, site-directed double-crossover variants, dc-Q193S and dc-R284H, were created with amino acid substitutions presumed to be located in the vicinity of the FeMo-cofactor of nitrogenase. Unlike the case for the ΔHup strain, H2 production activities of the variants were not decreased by the presence of high concentrations of N2 and they continuously produced H2 over 21 days with occasional headspace gas replacement. This property of N2 insensitivity is a potentially useful strategy for reducing the cost of the culture gas in future practical applications of sustainable biofuel production. This Anabaena strain has only the Mo-containing nitrogenase which reduces acetylene to ethylene, but the dc-Q193S variant also produced ethane at low but measurable rates along with greater rates of ethylene production. |
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Keywords: | Cyanobacteria Anabaena Hydrogen production Biofuel Nitrogenase Site-directed mutagenesis |
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