Fig. 6.
Hydrogen production by electron confurcation. Hypothetical model depicting the H2 production system engineered into E. coli based on collated evidence from several biological systems. A blue oval depicts the presence of a thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) cofactor, the fellow oval represents flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and the white oval the ‘H’-cluster. Iron-sulfur clusters are represented by brown cubes. The hypothetical direction of electron flow is suggested by red arrows.