Bioinspired framework catalysts: From enzyme immobilization to biomimetic catalysis

KY Wang, J Zhang, YC Hsu, H Lin, Z Han… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Enzymatic catalysis has fueled considerable interest from chemists due to its high efficiency
and selectivity. However, the structural complexity and vulnerability hamper the application …

Second and outer coordination sphere effects in nitrogenase, hydrogenase, formate dehydrogenase, and CO dehydrogenase

ST Stripp, BR Duffus, V Fourmond, C Léger… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Gases like H2, N2, CO2, and CO are increasingly recognized as critical feedstock in “green”
energy conversion and as sources of nitrogen and carbon for the agricultural and chemical …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial iron–sulfur clusters: Structure, function, and an emerging role in vascular biology

AD Read, RET Bentley, SL Archer, KJ Dunham-Snary - Redox biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Iron-sulfur (Fe–S) clusters are essential cofactors most commonly known for their
role mediating electron transfer within the mitochondrial respiratory chain. The Fe–S cluster …

Molybdenum nanofertilizer boosts biological nitrogen fixation and yield of soybean through delaying nodule senescence and nutrition enhancement

M Li, P Zhang, Z Guo, W Cao, L Gao, Y Li, CF Tian… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Soybean (Glycine max) is a crop of global significance and has low reliance on N fertilizers
due to its biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) capacity, which harvests ambient N2 as a critical …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanistic concepts of iron-sulfur protein biogenesis in Biology

JJ Braymer, SA Freibert, M Rakwalska-Bange… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Iron-sulfur (Fe/S) proteins are present in virtually all living organisms and are
involved in numerous cellular processes such as respiration, photosynthesis, metabolic …

Photochemistry journey to multielectron and multiproton chemical transformation

SL Meng, C Ye, XB Li, CH Tung… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The odyssey of photochemistry is accompanied by the journey to manipulate “electrons” and
“protons” in time, in space, and in energy. Over the past decades, single-electron (1e–) …

The spectroscopy of nitrogenases

C Van Stappen, L Decamps, GE Cutsail III… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogenases are responsible for biological nitrogen fixation, a crucial step in the
biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. These enzymes utilize a two-component protein system and …

Bacterial approaches for assembling iron-sulfur proteins

K Esquilin-Lebron, S Dubrac, F Barras, JM Boyd - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Building iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters and assembling Fe-S proteins are essential actions for
life on Earth. The three processes that sustain life, photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, and …

Sustainable ammonia production enabled by membrane reactor

L Ye, H Li, K Xie - Nature Sustainability, 2022 - nature.com
The ammonia industry is crucial for the global supply of food through economical production
of fertilizers in quantity, and it allows for the development of catalytic chemistry and …

Iron uptake mechanisms in marine phytoplankton

R Sutak, JM Camadro, E Lesuisse - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Oceanic phytoplankton species have highly efficient mechanisms of iron acquisition, as they
can take up iron from environments in which it is present at subnanomolar concentrations. In …