STUDIES ON THE CHEMICAL NATURE OF CLOSTRIDIAL FERREDOXIN.
STUDIES ON THE CHEMICAL NATURE OF CLOSTRIDIAL FERREDOXIN.
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梭菌铁氧化还原蛋白化学性质的研究。
DOI:
10.1016/s0021-9258(18)51805-6
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发表时间:
1963
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通讯作者:
J. Rabinowitz
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作者:
W. Lovenberg;B. Buchanan;J. Rabinowitz
Ferredoxin, a nonheme iron-containing protein, was isolated from Clostridium pasteurianum by Mortenson, Valentine, and Carnahan (2-4). This protein is essential for the formation of acetyl phosphate and hydrogen from pyruvate by diethylaminoethyl cellulose-treated extracts of that organism, and is apparently the electron transport factor linking pyruvate dehydrogenase and hydrogenase. Ferredoxin has subsequently been found in many anaerobic but not in aerobic or facultative organisms (4, 5). It has been detected in all of six clostridial species examined (5) and in Methanobacillus omelianskii (5), Peptostreptococcus elsdenii (4), and Micrococcus lactilyticus (6, 7)) and an unusually heat-stable ferredoxin was isolated from the thermophilic anaerobe, Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum (8). Ferredoxin has been reported to be involved in a wide variety of reactions. It is required for the reduction of organic acids, inorganic compounds, and coeneymes by M. lactilyticus (7); of triphosphopyridine nucleotide, hydroxylamine, and nitrite by C. pasteurianum (9-11); and of diphosphopyridine nucleotide by Clostridium acidi-urici(12). It has also been reported to stimulate methane production in extracts of M. omelianskii (13). The requirement for ferredoxin in these ensymic reactions has usually been demonstrated by coupling the reaction with hydrogen utilization in the presence of added or endogenous hydrogenase.Tagawa and Arnon (14) demonstrated that C. pasteurianum ferredoxin can replace the photosynthetic pyridine nucleotide reductase previously isolated from spinach by San Pietro and Lang (15) and crystallized from parsley by Hill and Bendall (16). It is believed to function in plants as the initial electron acceptor of the photoactivated chlorophyll molecule and is required for the photoreduction of TPN (17) and for photophosphorylation (18).