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The hydrogen-evolving reaction of the purified soluble NAD-linked hydrogenase of Alcaligenes eutrophus was used to determine kinetic parameters of the enzyme. The H2-evolving activity with methyl viologen as electron mediator was 20-fold as compared to that with NADH. In the assay with dithionite-reduced methyl viologen (K m 0.7 mM) the hydrogenase was most active at a redox potential of −560 mV and exhibited a pH optimum of 7.0. The K m for protons, the second substrate for H2 evolution, was 6.2 nM. With electrochemically reduced methyl viologen the pH optimum was shifted to pH 6.0. Double-reciprocal plots of reaction rates versus proton concentrations intercepted at the ordinate for different methyl viologen concentrations. At different pH values such an intercept was also observed with the dye as the varied substrate. The kinetic data are diagnostic for an ordered bisubstrate mechanism where both substrates are bound before the product H2 is released. Hydrogenase coupled to thylakoid membranes resulted in a constant H2 evolution rate over 6 h. The system appeared to be limited by the capacity of the thylakoid membranes.
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Haverkamp, G.K., Ranke, H. & Friedrich, C.G. Kinetic parameters for hydrogen evolution by the NAD-linked hydrogenase of Alcaligenes eutrophus . Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 44, 514–518 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00169953
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