Organometallic iron: The key to biological hydrogen metabolism

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 214-220

  Adams, Michael Ww ^a   Stiefel, Edward I ^b  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; IRON; NICKEL;

ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY; REVIEW;

EID: 0034124718     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(99)00077-0     Document Type: Review

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