Thin cell layer cultures of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii L159I-N230Y, pgrl1 and pgr5 mutants perform enhanced hydrogen production at sunlight intensity

Autor: Anna Podmaniczki, Éva Herman, Szilvia Z. Tóth, Alberto Scoma, Soujanya Kuntam, Dávid Tóth, László Kovács, André Vidal-Meireles, Valéria Nagy
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Nagy, V, Podmaniczki, A, Vidal-Meireles, A, Kuntam, S, Herman, É, Kovács, L, Tóth, D, Scoma, A & Tóth, S Z 2021, ' Thin cell layer cultures of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii L159I-N230Y, pgrl1 and pgr5 mutants perform enhanced hydrogen production at sunlight intensity ', Bioresource Technology, vol. 333, 125217 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125217
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125217
Popis: Photobiological hydrogen (H2) production is a promising renewable energy source. HydA hydrogenases of green algae are efficient but O2-sensitive and compete for electrons with CO2-fixation. Recently, we established a photoautotrophic H2 production system based on anaerobic induction, where the Calvin-Benson cycle is inactive and O2 scavenged by an absorbent. Here, we employed thin layer cultures, resulting in a three-fold increase in H2 production relative to bulk CC-124 cultures (50 µg chlorophyll/ml, 350 µmol photons m−2 s−1). Productivity was maintained when increasing the light intensity to 1000 µmol photons m-2s−1 and the cell density to 150 µg chlorophyll/ml. Remarkably, the L159I-N230Y photosystem II mutant and the pgrl1 photosystem I cyclic electron transport mutant produced 50% more H2 than CC-124, while the pgr5 mutant generated 250% more (1.2 ml H2/ml culture in six days). The photosynthetic apparatus of the pgr5 mutant and its in vitro HydA activity remained remarkably stable.
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