Publications of R. K. Thauer

Shima, S.; Thauer, R. K.: Methyl-coenzyme M reductase and the anaerobic oxidation of methane in methanotrophic Archaea. Current Opinion in Microbiology 8 (6), pp. 643 - 648 (2005)

Goenrich, M.; Thauer, R. K.; Yurimoto, H.; Kato, N.: Formaldehyde activating enzyme (Fae) and hexulose-6-phosphate synthase (Hps) in Methanosarcina barkeri: a possible function in ribose-5-phosphate biosynthesis. Archives of Microbiology 184 (1), pp. 41 - 48 (2005)

Seedorf, H.; Kahnt, J.; Pierik, A. J.; Thauer, R. K.: Si-face stereospecificity at C5 of coenzyme F-420 for F420H2 oxidase from methanogenic Archaea as determined by mass spectrometry. FEBS Journal 272 (20), pp. 5337 - 5342 (2005)

Shima, S.; Lyon, E. J.; Thauer, R. K.; Mienert, B.; Bill, E.: Mössbauer studies of the iron-sulfur cluster-free hydrogenase: The electronic state of the mononuclear Fe active site. Journal of the American Chemical Society 127 (29), pp. 10430 - 10435 (2005)

Aufhammer, S. W.; Warkentin, E.; Ermler, U.; Hagemeier, C. H.; Thauer, R. K.; Shima, S.: Crystal structure of methylenetetrahydromethanopterin reductase (Mer) in complex with coenzyme F420: Architecture of the F-420/FMN binding site of enzymes within the nonprolyl cis-peptide containing bacterial luciferase family. Protein Science 14 (7), pp. 1840 - 1849 (2005)

Goenrich, M.; Duin, E. C.; Mahlert, F.; Thauer, R. K.: Temperature dependence of methyl-coenzyme M reductase activity and of the formation of the methyl-coenzyme M reductase red2 state induced by coenzyme B. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 10 (4), pp. 333 - 342 (2005)

Acharya, P.; Goenrich, M.; Hagemeier, C. H.; Demmer, U.; Vorholt, J. A.; Thauer, R. K.; Ermler, U.: How an enzyme binds the C-1 carrier tetrahydromethanopterin - Structure of the tetrahydromethanopterin-dependent formaldehyde-aactivating enzyme (Fae) from Methylobacterium extorquens AM1. Journal of Biological Chemistry 280 (14), pp. 13712 - 13719 (2005)

Warkentin, E.; Hagemeier, C. H.; Shima, S.; Thauer, R. K.; Ermler, U.: The structure of F420-dependent methylenetetrahydromethanopterin dehydrogenase: a crystallographic 'superstructure' of the selenomethionine-labelled protein crystal structure. Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography 61, pp. 198 - 202 (2005)

Sakasegawa, S. I.; Hagemeier, C. H.; Thauer, R. K.; Essen, L. O.; Shima, S.: Structural and functional analysis of the gpsA gene product of Archaeoglobus fulgidus: A glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase with an unusual NADP(+) preference. Protein Science 13 (12), pp. 3161 - 3171 (2004)

Lyon, E. J.; Shima, S.; Boecher, R.; Thauer, R. K.; Grevels, F. W.; Bill, E.; Roseboom, W.; Albracht, S. P. J.: Carbon monoxide as an intrinsic ligand to iron in the active site of the iron-sulfur-cluster-free hydrogenase H₂-Forming methylenetetrahydromethanopterin dehydrogenase as revealed by infrared spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society 126 (43), pp. 14239 - 14248 (2004)

Buchenau, B.; Thauer, R.: Tetrahydrofolate-specific enzymes in Methanosarcina barkeri and growth dependence of this methanogenic archaeon on folic acid or p-aminobenzoic acid. Archives of Microbiology 182 (4), pp. 313 - 325 (2004)

Seedorf, H.; Dreisbach, A.; Hedderich, R.; Shima, S.; Thauer, R. K.: F420H2 oxidase (FprA) from Methanobrevibacter arboriphilus, a coenzyme F-420-dependent enzyme involved in O-2 detoxification. Archives of Microbiology 182 (2-3), pp. 126 - 137 (2004)

Goenrich, M.; Mahlert, F.; Duin, E. C.; Bauer, C.; Jaun, B.; Thauer, R. K.: Probing the reactivity of Ni in the active site of methyl-coenzyme M reductase with substrate analogues. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 9 (6), pp. 691 - 705 (2004)

Duin, E. C.; Signor, L.; Piskorski, R.; Mahlert, F.; Clay, M. D.; Goenrich, M.; Thauer, R. K.; Jaun, B.; Johnson, M. K.: Spectroscopic investigation of the nickel-containing porphinoid cofactor F-430. Comparison of the free cofactor in the +1, +2 and +3 oxidation states with the cofactor bound to methyl-coenzyme M reductase in the silent, red and ox forms. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 9 (5), pp. 563 - 576 (2004)

Shima, S.; Thauer, R. K.; Ermler, U.: Hyperthermophilic and salt-dependent formyltransferase from Methanopyrus kandleri. Biochemical Society Transactions 32, pp. 269 - 272 (2004)

Aufhammer, S. W.; Warkentin, E.; Berk, H.; Shima, S.; Thauer, R. K.; Ermler, U.: Coenzyme binding in F₄₂₀-dependent secondary alcohol dehydrogenase, a member of the bacterial luciferase family. Structure 12 (3), pp. 361 - 370 (2004)

Lyon, E. J.; Shima, S.; Buurman, G.; Chowdhuri, S.; Batschauer, A.; Steinbach, K.; Thauer, R. K.: UV-A/blue-light inactivation of the 'metal-free' hydrogenase (Hmd) from methanogenic archaea - The enzyme contains functional iron after all. European Journal of Biochemistry 271 (1), pp. 195 - 204 (2004)

Shima, S.; Lyon, E. J.; Sordel-Klippert, M. S.; Kauss, M.; Kahnt, J.; Thauer, R. K.; Steinbach, K.; Xie, X. L.; Verdier, L.; Griesinger, C.: The cofactor of the iron-sulfur cluster free hydrogenase Hmd: Structure of the light-inactivation product. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 43 (19), pp. 2547 - 2551 (2004)

Krüger, M.; Meyerdierks, A.; Glockner, F. O.; Amann, R.; Widdel, F.; Kube, M.; Reinhardt, R.; Kahnt, R.; Böcher, R.; Thauer, R. K. et al.; Shima, S.: A conspicuous nickel protein in microbial mats that oxidize methane anaerobically. Nature 426 (6968), pp. 878 - 881 (2003)

Hagemeier, C. H.; Shima, S.; Thauer, R. K.; Bourenkov, G.; Bartunik, H. D.; Ermler, U.: Coenzyme F-420-dependent methylenetetrahydro-methanopterin dehydrogenase (Mtd) from Methanopyrus kandleri: A methanogenic enzyme with an unusual quarternary structure. Journal of Molecular Biology 332 (5), pp. 1047 - 1057 (2003)