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KMID : 0903520050480030189
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Journal of the Korean Society of Agricultural Chemistry and Biotechnology
2005 Volume.48 No. 3 p.189 ~ p.200
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Mechanism of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Azotobacter vinelandii
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Kim Yong-Ung
Han Jae-Hong
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Abstract
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Biological nitrogen fixation is an important process for academic and industrial aspects. This review will briefly compare industrial and biological nitrogen fixation and cover the characteristics of biological nitrogen fixation studied in Azotobacter vinelandii. Various organisms can carry out biological nitrogen fixation and recently the researches on the reaction mechanism were concentrated on the free-living microorganism, A. vinelandii. Nitrogen fixation, which transforms atmospheric N2 into ammonia, is chemically a reduction reaction requiring electron donation. Nitrogenase, the biological nitrgen fixer, accepts electrons from biological electron donors, and transfers them to the active site, FeMo-cofactor, through Fe4S4 cluster in Fe protein and P-cluster in MoFe protein. The electron transport and the proton transport are very important processes in the nitrogenase catalysis to understand its reaction mechanism, and the interactions between FeMo-cofactor and nitrogen molecule are at the center of biological nitrogen fixation mechanism. Spectroscopic studies including protein X-ray crystallography, EPR and Mossbauer, biochemical approaches including substrate and inhibitor interactions as well as site-directed mutation study, and chemical approach to synthesize the FeMo-cofactor model compounds were used for biological nitrogen fixation study. Recent research results from these area were presented, and finally, a new nitrogenase reaction mechanism will be proposed based on the various research results.
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KEYWORD
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Nitrogen fixation, Nitrogenase, Azotobacter vinelandii, Mechanism, Fe protein, MoFe protein, FeMocofactor, Protein X-ray structure
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