The interface between the biological and inorganic worlds: Iron-sulfur metalloclusters

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5621, 2003, Pages 929-931

  Rees, Douglas C ^a   Howard, James B ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COMPOSITION; ENZYMES; SULFUR;

METALLOCLUSTERS;

IRON;

CARBON MONOXIDE; HYDROGEN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; NITROGEN;

BIOSPHERE; ENZYME; IRON; REDOX CONDITIONS; SULFUR;

ATMOSPHERE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSPHERE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HUMAN; INORGANIC CHEMISTRY; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDROGENASE; IRON; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; LIGANDS; METALS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NITROGENASE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SULFUR;

EID: 0038670302     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1083075     Document Type: Review

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