Biosynthesis of nitrogenase cofactors

S Burén, E Jiménez-Vicente… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogenase harbors three distinct metal prosthetic groups that are required for its activity.
The simplest one is a [4Fe-4S] cluster located at the Fe protein nitrogenase component. The …

Mechanism of Mo-dependent nitrogenase

LC Seefeldt, BM Hoffman… - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria catalyze the reduction of dinitrogen (N2) to two ammonia molecules
(NH3), the major contribution of fixed nitrogen to the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. The …

Light-driven dinitrogen reduction catalyzed by a CdS: nitrogenase MoFe protein biohybrid

KA Brown, DF Harris, MB Wilker, A Rasmussen… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The splitting of dinitrogen (N2) and reduction to ammonia (NH3) is a kinetically complex and
energetically challenging multistep reaction. In the Haber-Bosch process, N2 reduction is …

Nitrogenase bioelectrocatalysis: heterogeneous ammonia and hydrogen production by MoFe protein

RD Milton, S Abdellaoui, N Khadka, DR Dean… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitrogenase is the only enzyme known to catalyze the reduction of N2 to 2NH3. In vivo, the
MoFe protein component of nitrogenase is exclusively reduced by the ATP-hydrolyzing Fe …

Outbreak of poliomyelitis in Hispaniola associated with circulating type 1 vaccine-derived poliovirus

O Kew, V Morris-Glasgow, M Landaverde, C Burns… - Science, 2002 - science.org
An outbreak of paralytic poliomyelitis occurred in the Dominican Republic (13 confirmed
cases) and Haiti (8 confirmed cases, including 2 fatal cases) during 2000–2001. All but one …

New insights into the evolutionary history of biological nitrogen fixation

ES Boyd, JW Peters - Frontiers in microbiology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Nitrogenase, which catalyzes the ATP-dependent reduction of dinitrogen (N2) to ammonia
(NH3), accounts for roughly half of the bioavailable nitrogen supporting extant life. The …

A pathway for biological methane production using bacterial iron-only nitrogenase

Y Zheng, DF Harris, Z Yu, Y Fu, S Poudel… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas that is released from fossil fuels and is also
produced by microbial activity, with at least one billion tonnes of CH4 being formed and …

Mo-, V-, and Fe-Nitrogenases Use a Universal Eight-Electron Reductive-Elimination Mechanism To Achieve N2 Reduction

DF Harris, DA Lukoyanov, H Kallas, C Trncik… - Biochemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Three genetically distinct, but structurally similar, isozymes of nitrogenase catalyze
biological N2 reduction to 2NH3: Mo-, V-, and Fe-nitrogenase, named respectively for the …

Nanorg microbial factories: light-driven renewable biochemical synthesis using quantum dot-bacteria nanobiohybrids

Y Ding, JR Bertram, C Eckert… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Living cells do not interface naturally with nanoscale materials, although such artificial
organisms can have unprecedented multifunctional properties, like wireless activation of …

Nitrogen fixation: the mechanism of the Mo-dependent nitrogenase

RY Igarashi, LC Seefeldt - Critical reviews in biochemistry and …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
This review focuses on recent developments elucidating the mechanism of the Mo-
dependent nitrogenase. This enzyme, responsible for the majority of biological nitrogen …