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. 1963 May;85(5):1114-20.
doi: 10.1128/jb.85.5.1114-1120.1963.

ROLE OF FERREDOXIN IN THE METABOLISM OF MOLECULAR HYDROGEN

R C VALENTINE, R S WOLFE

ROLE OF FERREDOXIN IN THE METABOLISM OF MOLECULAR HYDROGEN

R C VALENTINE et al. J Bacteriol. 1963 May.

Abstract

Valentine, R. C. (University of Illinois, Urbana) and R. S. Wolfe. Role of ferredoxin in the metabolism of molecular hydrogen. J. Bacteriol. 85:1114-1120. 1963.-The metabolism of molecular hydrogen by Clostridium pasteurianum, Micrococcus lactilyticus (Veillonella alcalescens), and several other anaerobic bacteria was studied. Oxidation of hydrogen, using several electron-accepting substrates including triphosphopyridine nucleotide, uric acid, xanthine, nitrite, and hydroxylamine, required ferredoxin in conjunction with hydrogenase. Evolution of hydrogen from pyruvate, alpha-ketoglutarate, hypoxanthine, and dithionite was mediated by ferredoxin. On the basis of these findings, a unitary hypothesis for biological hydrogen evolution is proposed in which ferredoxin plays a key role.

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