Mechanistic features of the Mo-containing nitrogenase

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 52, Issue , 2001, Pages 269-295

  Christiansen, Jason ^a   Dean, Dennis R ^a   Seefeldt, Lance C ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrolysis; Metalloenzyme; Nitrogenase; Nucleotides; Redox proteins

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035780979     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.52.1.269     Document Type: Article

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