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Here, we have study the metabolic consequences of the breaking in the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle by fumarase knockout. Two fumarases belonging to non-homologous class I and II fumarases were obtained from the bacterium by heterologous expression in <jats:italic>Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic>. Class I fumarase (FumI) is a homodimeric enzyme catalyzing the reversible hydration of fumarate and mesaconate with activities of ~94 and ~81 U mg<jats:sup>-1<\/jats:sup> protein, respectively. The enzyme exhibited high activity under aerobic conditions, which is a non-typical property for class I fumarases characterized to date. The calculation of <jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>cat<\/jats:sub>\/<jats:italic>S<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>0.5<\/jats:sub> showed that the enzyme works effectively with either fumarate or mesaconate, but it is almost four times less specific to malate. Class II fumarase (FumC) has a tetrameric structure and equal activities of both fumarate hydration and malate dehydration (~45 U mg<jats:sup>-1<\/jats:sup> protein). Using mutational analysis, it was shown that both forms of the enzyme are functionally interchangeable. The triple mutant strain 20Z-3E (\u0394fumI\u0394fumC\u0394mae) deficient in the genes encoding the both fumarases and the malic enzyme accumulated 2.6 and 1.1 mmol g<jats:sup>-1<\/jats:sup> DCW fumarate in the medium when growing on methane and methanol, respectively. 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