Historic Overview of Nitrogenase Research

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 766, Issue , 2011, Pages 3-7

  Hu, Yilin ^a   Ribbe, Markus W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological nitrogen fixation; cell free extracts; nitrogenase; purification; x ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

NITROGENASE;

CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE;

EID: 80052958833     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-194-9_1     Document Type: Chapter

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