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Ferredoxin-FNR

Sequence and Features

Overview

The ferredoxin and ferredoxin reductase enzyme which are encoded by this part makes up the ferredoxin reductase operon for testing the hydrogen production pathway of our project. Ferredoxin is the last electron acceptor and reduced ferredoxin is the electron donor to the hydrogenase for hydrogen production in the hydrogen production pathway of our project. Oxidised ferredoxin is reduced by ferredoxin reductase using NADPH. This is to allow the testing for hydrogen production with the hydrogenase operon in vivo in the absence of PSII.

In the presence of PSII we plan to enable the direct transfer of electrons to the hydrogenase from PSII, similar to the proof of concept for PSII-hydrogenase coupling demonstrated in vitro [5].

Biology & Literature

Ferredoxin-NADP reductase (FNR) has a mass of 36kDa and shows ferredoxin-dependent cytochrome c reduction activity [1]. This enzyme facilitates electron transfer from ferredoxin to NADP [2]. In vivo studies showed that this protein is N-trimethylated on 3 different lysines – K135, K83 and K89). This modification is thought to be involved in regulation and structural modulation since the methylated protein is smaller and more compact. Studies comparing FNR protein from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with recombinant protein expressed in E. coli showed that the latter had a higher Km value for NADPH [3].

PETF plays a role in transfer of electrons between photosystem I and FNR [4]. It has been shown to enhance heat stress tolerance when it is overexpressed in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by downregulating the levels of reactive oxygen species.

Protein information

Ferredoxin
Mass: 13.0 kDa
Sequence:
MAMRSTFAARVGAKPAVRGARPASRMSCMAYKVTLKTPSGDKTIECPADTYILDAAEEAGLDLPYSCRAGACSSCAGKVAAGTVDQSDQSFLDDAQMGNGFV LTCVAYPTSDCTIQTHQEEALY

Ferredoxin reductase (FNR)
Mass: 38.27 kDa
Sequence:
MQTVRAPAASGVATRVAGRRMCRPVAATKASTAVTTDMSKRTVPTKLEEGEMPLNTYSNKAPFKAKVRSVEKITGPKATGETCHIIIETEGKIPFWEGQSYGVIPP GTKINSKGKEVPHGTRLYSIASSRYGDDFDGQTASLCVRRAVYVDPETGKEDPAKKGLCSNFLCDATPGTEISMTGPTGKVLLLPADANAPLICVATGTGIAPFRS FWRRCFIENVPSYKFTGLFWLFMGVANSDAKLYDEELQAIAKAYPGQFRLDYALSREQNNRKGGKMYIQDKVEEYADEIFDLLDNGAHMYFCGLKGMMPGIQD MLERVAKEKGLNYEEWVEGLKHKNQWHVEVY

References

[1] Decottignies, P., Lemarechal, P., Jacquot, J., Schmitter, J. and Gadal, P. (1995). Primary Structure and Post-translational Modification of Ferredoxin-NADP Reductase from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 316(1), pp.249-259.
[2] Rogers, W., Hodges, M., Decottignies, P., Schmitter, J., Gadal, P. and Jacquot, J. (1992). Isolation of a cDNA fragment coding for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ferredoxin and expression of the recombinant protein in Escherichia coli. FEBS Letters, 310(3), pp.240-245.
[3] Decottignies, P., Flesch, V., Gérard-Hirne, C. and Le Maréchal, P. (2003). Role of positively charged residues in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ferredoxin-NADP+-reductase. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 41(6-7), pp.637-642.
[4] Lin, Y., Pan, K., Hung, C., Huang, H., Chen, C., Feng, T. and Huang, L. (2013). Overexpression of Ferredoxin, PETF, Enhances Tolerance to Heat Stress in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 14(10), pp.20913-20929.
[5] Mersch D., Lee C-Y., Zhang J.Z., BrinkertK., Fontecilla-Camps J.C., Rutherford A.W., and Reisner E. (2015) Wiring of Photosystem II to Hydrogenase for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137 (26), pp 8541–8549