High yield purification of a tagged cytoplasmic [NiFe]-hydrogenase and a catalytically-active nickel-free intermediate form

作者：Chandrayan Sanjeev K; Wu Chang Hao; McTernan Patrick M; Adams Michael W W^*

来源：Protein Expression and Purification, 2015, 107: 90-94.

DOI：10.1016/j.pep.2014.10.018

• Hydrogen
• Hydrogenase
• Enzyme maturation
• Pyrococcus
• Affinity purification

The cytoplasmic [NiFe]-hydrogenase I (SHI) of the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus evolves hydrogen gas (H-2) from NADPH. It has been previously used for biohydrogen production from sugars using a mixture of enzymes in an in vitro cell-free synthetic pathway. The theoretical yield (12 H-2/glucose) is three times greater than microbial fermentation (4 H-2/glucose), making the in vitro approach very promising for large scale biohydrogen production. Further development of this process at an industrial scale is limited by the availability of the H-2-producing SHI. To overcome the obstacles of the complex biosynthetic and maturation pathway for the [NiFe] site of SHI, the four gene operon encoding the enzyme was overexpressed in P. furiosus and included a polyhistidine affinity tag. The one-step purification resulted in a 50-fold increase in yield compared to the four-step purification procedure for the native enzyme. A trimeric form was also identified that lacked the [NiFe]-catalytic subunit but catalyzed NADPH oxidation with a specific activity similar to that of the tetrameric form. The presence of an active trimeric intermediate confirms the proposed maturation pathway where, in the terminal step, the NiFe-containing catalytic subunit assembles with NADPH-oxidizing trimeric form to give the active holoenzyme.

• 出版日期2015-3