scholarly journals A synthetic pathway for the fixation of carbon dioxide in vitro

Science ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 354 (6314) ◽  
pp. 900-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Schwander ◽  
Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski ◽  
Simon Burgener ◽  
Niña Socorro Cortina ◽  
Tobias J. Erb
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Synthetic Pathway ◽  
Fixation Of Carbon Dioxide

scholarly journals Fixation of Carbon Dioxide by Pre-Implantation Mouse Embryos in Vitro and the Activities of Enzymes Involved in the Process

1971 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Quinn ◽  
RG Wales
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Culture Medium ◽  
Mouse Embryos ◽  
Culture Period ◽  
Fixed Carbon ◽  
Morula Stage ◽  
Fixation Of Carbon Dioxide

The incorporation of fixed carbon from carbon dioxide into mouse embryos was greatest in eight-cell embryos which developed into blastocysts during a 24-hr culture period and was four to five times greater than the incorporation into two-cell embryos cultured for a similar period. The net accumulation of labelled products in the culture medium was greatest during the culture of the morula stage to the blastocyst over 24 hr.

scholarly journals On the fixation of carbon dioxide by preimplantation rat eggs in vitro

1973 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-103
Author(s):  
Shichiro SUGAWARA ◽  
H. TSUJII ◽  
S. TAKEUCHI
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Rat Eggs ◽  
Fixation Of Carbon Dioxide

Atom Condensed Fukui Function for Condensed Phases and Biological Systems and Its Application to Enzymatic Fixation of Carbon Dioxide

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Oller ◽  
David A. Sáez ◽  
Esteban Vöhringer-Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Aqueous Solution ◽  
Molecular System ◽  
Chemical Reactivity ◽  
Nucleophilic Attack ◽  
Stable Conformation ◽  
Fukui Functions ◽  
Reactivity Descriptors ◽  
Dynamics Simulations ◽  
Fixation Of Carbon Dioxide

<div><div><div><p>Local reactivity descriptors such as atom condensed Fukui functions are promising computational tools to study chemical reactivity at specific sites within a molecule. Their applications have been mainly focused on isolated molecules in their most stable conformation without considering the effects of the surroundings. Here, we propose to combine QM/MM Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics simulations to obtain the microstates (configurations) of a molecular system using different representations of the molecular environment and calculate Boltzmann weighted atom condensed local reac- tivity descriptors based on conceptual DFT. Our approach takes the conformational fluctuations of the molecular system and the polarization of its electron density by the environment into account allowing us to analyze the effect of changes in the molecular environment on reactivity. In this contribution, we apply the method mentioned above to the catalytic fixation of carbon dioxide by crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase and study if the enzyme alters the reactivity of its substrate compared to an aqueous solution. Our main result is that the protein en- vironment activates the substrate by the elimination of solute-solvent hydrogen bonds from aqueous solution in the two elementary steps of the reaction mechanism: the nucleophilic attack of a hydride anion from NADPH on the α, β unsaturated thioester and the electrophilic attack of carbon dioxide on the formed enolate species.</p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Novel Transcriptional Regulons for Autotrophic Cycle Genes in Crenarchaeota

2015 ◽  
Vol 197 (14) ◽  
pp. 2383-2391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Semen A. Leyn ◽  
Irina A. Rodionova ◽  
Xiaoqing Li ◽  
Dmitry A. Rodionov
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Transcriptional Regulation ◽  
Comparative Genomics ◽  
Dna Binding ◽  
Transcriptional Control ◽  
Binding Assays ◽  
Promoter Regions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Genome Context

ABSTRACTAutotrophic microorganisms are able to utilize carbon dioxide as their only carbon source, or, alternatively, many of them can grow heterotrophically on organics. Different variants of autotrophic pathways have been identified in various lineages of the phylumCrenarchaeota. Aerobic members of the orderSulfolobalesutilize the hydroxypropionate-hydroxybutyrate cycle (HHC) to fix inorganic carbon, whereas anaerobicThermoprotealesuse the dicarboxylate-hydroxybutyrate cycle (DHC). Knowledge of transcriptional regulation of autotrophic pathways inArchaeais limited. We applied a comparative genomics approach to predict novel autotrophic regulons in theCrenarchaeota. We report identification of two novel DNA motifs associated with the autotrophic pathway genes in theSulfolobales(HHC box) andThermoproteales(DHC box). Based on genome context evidence, the HHC box regulon was attributed to a novel transcription factor from the TrmB family named HhcR. Orthologs of HhcR are present in allSulfolobalesgenomes but were not found in other lineages. A predicted HHC box regulatory motif was confirmed byin vitrobinding assays with the recombinant HhcR protein fromMetallosphaera yellowstonensis. For the DHC box regulon, we assigned a different potential regulator, named DhcR, which is restricted to the orderThermoproteales. DhcR inThermoproteus neutrophilus(Tneu_0751) was previously identified as a DNA-binding protein with high affinity for the promoter regions of two autotrophic operons. The global HhcR and DhcR regulons reconstructed by comparative genomics were reconciled with available omics data inMetallosphaeraandThermoproteusspp. The identified regulons constitute two novel mechanisms for transcriptional control of autotrophic pathways in theCrenarchaeota.IMPORTANCELittle is known about transcriptional regulation of carbon dioxide fixation pathways inArchaea. We previously applied the comparative genomics approach for reconstruction of DtxR family regulons in diverse lineages ofArchaea. Here, we utilize similar computational approaches to identify novel regulatory motifs for genes that are autotrophically induced in microorganisms from two lineages ofCrenarchaeotaand to reconstruct the respective regulons. The predicted novel regulons in archaeal genomes control the majority of autotrophic pathway genes and also other carbon and energy metabolism genes. The HhcR regulon was experimentally validated by DNA-binding assays inMetallosphaeraspp. Novel regulons described for the first time in this work provide a basis for understanding the mechanisms of transcriptional regulation of autotrophic pathways inArchaea.

scholarly journals MECHANISM OF FIXATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE KREBS CYCLE

1941 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 483-484
Author(s):  
H.G. Wood ◽  
C.H. Werkman ◽  
Allan Hemingway ◽  
A.O. Nier
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Krebs Cycle ◽  
Fixation Of Carbon Dioxide
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