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. 1987 Oct;169(10):4565–4569. doi: 10.1128/jb.169.10.4565-4569.1987

Expression of uptake hydrogenase and hydrogen oxidation during heterotrophic growth of Bradyrhizobium japonicum.

P van Berkum 1
PMCID: PMC213822  PMID: 3115959

Abstract

Strains I-110 ARS, SR, USDA 136, USDA 137, and AK13 1c of Bradyrhizobium japonicum induced Hup activity when growing heterotrophically in medium with carbon substrate and NH4Cl in the presence of 2% H2 and 2% O2. Hup activity was induced during heterotrophic growth in the presence of carbon substrates, which were assimilated during the time of H2 oxidation. Strains I-110 ARS and SR grown heterotrophically or chemoautotrophically for 3 days had similar rates of H2 oxidation. Similar rates of Hup activity were also observed when cell suspensions were induced for 24 h in heterotrophic or chemoautotrophic growth medium with 1% O2, 10% H2, and 5% CO2 in N2. These results are contrary to the reported repression of Hup activity by carbon substrates in B. japonicum. Bradyrhizobial Hup activity during heterotrophic growth was limited by H2 and O2 and repressed by aerobic conditions, and CO2 addition had no effect. Nitrogenase and ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase activities were not detected in H2-oxidizing cultures of B. japonicum during heterotrophic growth. Immunoblot analysis of cell extracts with antibodies prepared against the 65-kilodalton subunit of uptake hydrogenase indicated that Hup protein synthesis was induced by H2 and repressed under aerobic conditions.

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