The microbial nitrogen-cycling network

MMM Kuypers, HK Marchant, B Kartal - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Nitrogen is an essential component of all living organisms and the main nutrient limiting life
on our planet. By far, the largest inventory of freely accessible nitrogen is atmospheric …

Copper active sites in biology

EI Solomon, DE Heppner, EM Johnston… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
On the basis of its generally accessible I/II redox couple and bioavailability, copper plays a
wide variety of roles in nature that mostly involve electron transfer (ET), O 2 binding …

Nitric oxide is an obligate bacterial nitrification intermediate produced by hydroxylamine oxidoreductase

JD Caranto, KM Lancaster - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Ammonia (NH3)-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) emit substantial amounts of nitric oxide (NO) and
nitrous oxide (N2O), both of which contribute to the harmful environmental side effects of …

Insights into the physiology of ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms

LY Stein - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Nitrification is the aerobic process of the nitrogen cycle that converts ammonia to nitrate and
is facilitated by ammonia-oxidizing and nitrite-oxidizing microorganisms. Ammonia-oxidizers …

Ammonia oxidation: ecology, physiology, biochemistry and why they must all come together

LE Lehtovirta-Morley - FEMS microbiology letters, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Ammonia oxidation is a fundamental core process in the global biogeochemical nitrogen
cycle. Oxidation of ammonia (NH3) to nitrite (NO2−) is the first and rate-limiting step in …

Direct electrochemistry of redox enzymes as a tool for mechanistic studies

C Léger, P Bertrand - Chemical Reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
This review regards the use of dynamic electrochemistry to study the mechanism of redox
enzymes, with exclusive emphasis on the configuration where the protein is adsorbed onto …

Electrochemical ammonia oxidation with molecular catalysts

HY Liu, HMC Lant, CC Cody, J Jelušić… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic ammonia oxidation (AO) provides an attractive route to a carbon-neutral fuel
economy and the energy-efficient production of value-added feedstocks. The design and …

Low yield and abiotic origin of N2O formed by the complete nitrifier Nitrospira inopinata

KD Kits, MY Jung, J Vierheilig, P Pjevac… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitric oxide (NO) are atmospheric trace gases that contribute to
climate change and affect stratospheric and ground-level ozone concentrations. Ammonia …

The pH dependency of N‐converting enzymatic processes, pathways and microbes: effect on net N2O production

JM Blum, Q Su, Y Ma, B Valverde‐Pérez… - Environmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is emitted during microbiological nitrogen (N) conversion processes,
when N2O production exceeds N2O consumption. The magnitude of N2O production vs …

Alternative bioenergy: updates to and challenges in nitrification metalloenzymology

KM Lancaster, JD Caranto, SH Majer, MA Smith - Joule, 2018 - cell.com
Biological ammonia (NH 3) oxidation to nitrate (NO 3–)––nitrification––is a critical pathway
of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. Additional products and by-products of this pathway …