Nitrite and nitrate reduction by molybdenum centers of the nitrate reductase type: Computational predictions on the catalytic mechanism

Nitric Oxide - Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-31

  Silaghi Dumitrescu, Radu ^a   Mich, Mihaela ^a   Matyas, Csongor ^a   Cooper, Chris E ^b  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DFT; Molybdenum; Nitrate reductase; Nitric oxide synthesis; Nitrite reductase

Indexed keywords

MOLYBDENUM; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BINDING; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ISOMERISM; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; REDUCTION;

BINDING SITES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLYBDENUM; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; NITROGEN;

EID: 84856331349     PISSN: 10898603     EISSN: 10898611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.niox.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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