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PMID:20689010

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Citation

Lee, CC, Hu, Y and Ribbe, MW (2010) Vanadium nitrogenase reduces CO. Science 329:642

Abstract

Vanadium nitrogenase not only reduces dinitrogen to ammonia but also reduces carbon monoxide to ethylene, ethane, and propane. The parallelism between the two reactions suggests a potential link in mechanism and evolution between the carbon and nitrogen cycles on Earth.

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PubMed PMC3141295 Online version:10.1126/science.1191455

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Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism; Azotobacter vinelandii/enzymology; Azotobacter vinelandii/genetics; Biocatalysis; Carbon Monoxide/metabolism; Ethane/metabolism; Ethylenes/metabolism; Evolution, Molecular; Genes, Bacterial; Hydrogen/metabolism; Nitrogen/metabolism; Nitrogenase/metabolism; Oxidation-Reduction; Propane/metabolism

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