Previously, it has been impossible to capture the high-resolution images of nitrogenase, the only enzyme capable of reducing nitrogen into ammonia, during catalytic action. Now, for the first time, ...

Previously, it has been impossible to capture the high-resolution images of nitrogenase, the only enzyme capable of reducing nitrogen into ammonia, during catalytic action. Now researchers report near ...

An oxygen sensor protein protects the enzymatic machinery of biological nitrogen fixation from serious damage, and its use in biotechnology could help to reduce the use of synthetic fertilizer in ...

Through the biological fixation of the element nitrogen by the enzyme nitrogenase, organisms gain access to molecular nitrogen (N2) in the Earth's atmosphere, which is essential for building cellular ...

Plants need nitrogen to grow, which they derive from 'fixed'or chemically available nitrogen in the soil. How the nitrogen is extracted happens through a process called biological nitrogen fixation.

In nature, enzymes known as nitrogenases convert N 2 found in the environment into a form that can be used to make amino acids and other biologically valuable nitrogen compounds. A multidisciplinary ...

In an effort to better understand nitrogenase—the essential biocatalyst that bacteria use to convert N 2 into ammonia—researchers have now solved a mystery concerning the origins of a carbide ion in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Nitrogen fixation was induced in a strain of "cowpea" rhizobia, 32Hl, when it was grown in association with cell cultures of the non-legume, ...

About 15 years ago, Simone Raugei started simulating chemistry experiments at the molecular level. Today, as part of a top-notch research team aided by advanced computing, Raugei and his colleagues ...