Nature's way of handling a greenhouse gas: The copper-sulfur cluster of purple nitrous oxide reductase

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 393, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1067-1077

  Wüst, Anja ^a   Schneider, Lisa ^a   Pomowski, Anja ^a   Zumft, Walter G ^b   Kroneck, Peter M H ^c   Einsle, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial denitrifi cation; Copper sulfur cluster; Metalloenzymes; Nitrous oxide reductase; Protein crystallography

Indexed keywords

COPPER; IODIDE; NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE; OXYGEN; SULFIDE; SULFUR; WATER;

ACHROMOBACTER CYCLOCLASTES; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GREENHOUSE GAS; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; PSEUDOMONAS NAUTICA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; STOICHIOMETRY;

COLOR; COPPER; GASES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SULFUR;

ACHROMOBACTER CYCLOCLASTES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MARINOBACTER HYDROCARBONOCLASTICUS; PARACOCCUS (BACTERIUM); PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 84869446703     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2012-0177     Document Type: Article

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