Inactivation of the Escherichia coli K-12 twin-arginine translocation system promotes increased hydrogen production

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 135-137

  Penfold, David W ^a   Sargent, Frank ^b   Macaskie, Lynne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Hydrogen production; Hydrogenase; Tat mutants

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DRY WEIGHT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; UPREGULATION;

CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASES; GENE DELETION; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 33747640530     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00333.x     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Berks BC, Palmer T & Sargent F (2003) The Tat protein translocation pathway and its role in microbial physiology. Adv Microbial Physiol 47: 187-254.
2. Bogsch EG, Sargent F, Stanley NR, Berks BC, Robinson C & Palmer T (1998) An essential component of a novel bacterial export system with homologues in plastids and mitochondria. J Biol Chem 273: 18003-18006.
3. Das D & Veziroǧlu TN (2001) Hydrogen production by biological processes: a survey of literature. Int J Hydrogen Energy 26: 13-28.
4. Eroǧlu E, Gündüz U, Yücel M, Türker L & Eroǧlu İ (2004) Photobiological hydrogen production by using olive mill wastewater as a sole substrate source. Int J Hydrogen Energy 29: 163-171.
5. Kumar N & Das D (2000) Enhancement of hydrogen production by Enterobacter cloacae IIT-BT 08. Process Biochem 35: 589-593.
6. Lay JJ (2000) Modelling and optimization of anaerobic digested sludge converting starch to hydrogen. Biotechnol Bioeng 68: 269-278.
7. Mizuno O, Dinsdale R, Hawkes FR, Hawkes DL & Noike T (2000) Enhancement of hydrogen from glucose by nitrogen gas sparging. Bioresource Technol 73: 59-65.
8. Penfold DW & Macaskie LE (2004) Production of hydrogen from sucrose by Escherichia coli strains carrying the pUR400 plasmid, which encodes invertase activity. Biotechnol Lett 26: 1879-1883.
9. Penfold DW, Forster CF & Macaskie LE (2003) Increased hydrogen production by Escherichia coli strain HD701 in comparison with the wildtype parent strain MC4100. Enzyme Microb Technol 32: 185-189.
10. Sauter M, Bohm R & Bock A (1992) Mutational analysis of the operon (hyc) determining hydrogenase 3 formation in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 6: 1523-1532.
11. Stanley NR, Palmer T & Berks BC (2000) The twin arginine consensus motif of Tat signal peptides is involved in Sec-independent protein targeting in Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 275: 11591-11596.
12. Stanley NR, Findlay K, Berks BC & Palmer T (2001) Escherichia coli strains blocked in Tat-dependent protein export exhibit pleiotropic defects in the cell envelope. J Bacteriol 183: 139-144.
13. Tanisho S & Ishiwate Y (1995) Continuous hydrogen production from molasses by fermentation using urethane foam as a support of flocs. Int J Hydrogen Energy 20: 541-545.
14. Wexler M, Sargent F, Jack RL, Stanley NR, Bogsch EG, Robinson C, Berks BC & Palmer T (2000) TatD is a cytoplasmic protein with DNase activity-no requirement for TatD-family proteins in Sec-independent protein export. J Biol Chem 275: 16717-16722.
15. 2 production from starch by a mixed culture of Clostridium butyricum and Rhodobacter sp. M-19. Biotechnol Lett 20: 895-899.
16. Yokoi H, Saitsu A, Uchida H, Hirose J, Hayashi S & Takasaki Y (2001) Microbial hydrogen production from sweet potato starch residue. J Biosci Bioeng 91: 58-63.
17. Zhu H, Suzuki T, Tsyankov AA, Asada Y & Miyake J (1999) Hydrogen production from tofu wastewater by Rhodobacter sphaeroides immobilized in agar gels. Int J Hydrogen Energy 24: 305-310.