BIOCHEMISTRY:Biological Hydrogen Production: Not So Elementary
- 4 December 1998
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 282 (5395), 1842-1843
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.282.5395.1842
Abstract
Many organisms metabolize hydrogen gas by means of an enzyme called hydrogenase. The nature of the catalytic sites in the hydrogenases has long been a subject of conjecture and debate. In their Perspective, Adams and Stiefel discuss results reported in the same issue by Peters et al. in which x-ray crystallography was used to provide the first structural glimpse of the iron-only hydrogenase from the hydrogen-producing, anaerobic bacterium Clostridium pasteurianum. With this information, it is hoped that the properties of the hydrogenase enzyme can now be understood and possibly mimicked for chemical processing applications.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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