Sentences with phrase «make nitrogenase»
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«We want to understand the reactions of nitrogenase in order to make the enzyme available for future biotechnological applications.
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The bacteria harvest H2 from their PHB store and use their nitrogenase to combine it with nitrogen from the air to make ammonia, the starting material for fertilizer.
Some microbes have evolved proteins called nitrogenases that can split apart nitrogen molecules in the air and weld that nitrogen to hydrogen to make ammonia and other compounds that plants can absorb to get their nitrogen.
But what is the mechanism for how the nitrogenase active site iron - hydrides relaxed to make this H2?
Nitrogenase will make H2 if run in the absence of N2.
Scientists have known for some time that nitrogenase makes H2 by two different processes.
To make sure this methane - generating pathway was not exclusive to Rhodopseudomonas palustris, they tested for similar abilities in three other nitrogen - fixing bacterial species that have iron - only nitrogenase.