We report the first electrochemical study of a lanthanoid-dependent methanol dehydrogenase (Eu-MDH) from the acidophilic verrucomicrobial methanotroph Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV with its own physiological cytochrome c electron acceptor. Eu-MDH harbours a redox active 2,7,9-tricarboxypyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) cofactor which is non-covalently bound but coordinates trivalent lanthanoid elements including Eu . Eu-MDH and the cytochrome were co-adsorbed with the biopolymer chitosan and cast onto a mercaptoundecanol (MU) monolayer modified Au working electrode. Cyclic voltammetry of cytochrome c reveals a well-defined quasi-reversible Fe redox couple at +255 mV vs. NHE at pH 7.5 and this response is pH independent. The reversible one-electron response of the cytochrome c transforms into a sigmoidal catalytic wave in the presence of Eu-MDH and its substrates (methanol or formaldehyde). The catalytic current was pH-dependent and pH 7.3 was found to be optimal. Kinetic parameters (pH dependence, activation energy) obtained by electrochemistry show the same trends as those obtained from an artificial phenazine ethosulfate/dichlorophenol indophenol assay.
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