Mechanical coupling in the nitrogenase complex.

The enzyme nitrogenase reduces dinitrogen to ammonia utilizing electrons, protons, and energy obtained from the hydrolysis of ATP. Mo-dependent nitrogenase is a symmetric dimer, with each half comprising an ATP-dependent reductase, termed the Fe Protein, and a catalytic protein, known as the MoFe pr...

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Main Authors: Qi Huang, Monika Tokmina-Lukaszewska, Lewis E Johnson, Hayden Kallas, Bojana Ginovska, John W Peters, Lance C Seefeldt, Brian Bothner, Simone Raugei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008719