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CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 57, Issue 5-6, Pages 492-538Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10409238.2023.2181309
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MoFe protein; Fe protein; nitrogen fixation; Azotobacter vinelandii; nitrogenase; vanadium nitrogenase; iron-only nitrogenase; respiratory protection
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Understanding the reduction of nitrogen gas to ammonia at ambient conditions has been a longstanding challenge. This knowledge is crucial for transferring biological nitrogen fixation to crops and developing improved synthetic catalysts. Azotobacter vinelandii has emerged as the preferred model organism for studying this process over the past 30 years. This review summarizes the current understanding and places it in historical context.
Understanding how Nature accomplishes the reduction of inert nitrogen gas to form metabolically tractable ammonia at ambient temperature and pressure has challenged scientists for more than a century. Such an understanding is a key aspect toward accomplishing the transfer of the genetic determinants of biological nitrogen fixation to crop plants as well as for the development of improved synthetic catalysts based on the biological mechanism. Over the past 30 years, the free-living nitrogen-fixing bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii emerged as a preferred model organism for mechanistic, structural, genetic, and physiological studies aimed at understanding biological nitrogen fixation. This review provides a contemporary overview of these studies and places them within the context of their historical development.
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