Nitrogen fixation biochemistry

J. Kim and D.C. Rees. 1989. Nitrogenase and biological nitrogen fixation Biochemistry 33 389-397. (PubMed)... 

Wilson, P.W. The Biochemistry of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, pp. 302 (1940). 

Ludden, P.W. and G.P. Roberts. The biochemistry and genetics of nitrogen fixation by photosynthetic bacteria. In Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands,... 

Research on BNF almost ceased during the first World War and, even before 1914, its focus had shifted from Europe to America. All movements have their scriptures for BNF the Old Testament was Fred, Baldwin and McCoy s The Root Nodule Bacteria and Leguminous Plants (1932), and the New Testament, P. W. Wilson s The Biochemistry of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation (1940) both published by the University of Wisconsin Press in Madison. 

Since the definition of the structure of FeMoco, theoretical studies have appeared attempting to identify the manner by which N2 binds to this cluster. The realization that the Mo site within the cluster is 6-coordinate, and therefore could be considered as coordinatively saturated, has led to what may be an overemphasis on looking at the Fe sites as the N2 binding position. The salient features of the five studies reported so far will be discussed briefly, with an emphasis not on the basis of the calculations but the major conclusions of importance in giving an insight into the chemistry and biochemistry of nitrogen fixation. 

M. J. Dilworth, A.R. Glenn (Eds.), Biology and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation, Elsevier, Amsterdam (1991). 

Smith, B.E. (2000) Chemistry and biochemistry of nitrogenase, Curr. Plant Sci. Biotechnol Agric. 38 (Nitrogen Fixation From Molecules to Crop Productivity), 11-12. 

R. L. Richards, Nitrogen Fixation Chemistry-Biochemistry-Genetic Interface (Proceedings of the International Meeting, 1981), ed. A. Mueller and W. E. Newton, Plenum, New York, 1983, p. 275. 

A109. G. Eichhorn, ed., Inorganic Biochemistry. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1972. Topics covered include bio-inorganic chemistry of nitrogen fixation. 

Alio. J. R. Postgate, ed., Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation. Plenum, New York, 1971. 

Lorenz, S.E., McGrath, S.P. and Giller, K.E. (1992) Assessment of free-living nitrogen-fixation activity as a biological indicator of heavy-metal toxicity in soil. Soil Biology Biochemistry, 24, 601-606. 

Postgate, J. R. (ed.) The chemistry and biochemistry of nitrogen fixation. London ... 

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