2013-1-15 · Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas, whose atmospheric concentration has been increasing since the introduction of the Haber Bosch process led to the widespread use of nitrogenous fertilizers. One of the pathways to its destruction is reduction to molecular nitrogen by the enzyme nitrous oxide reductase found in denitrifying bacteria.
Nitrous oxide reductase (N 2 OR) catalyzes the last step of the dissimilatory metabolic pathway of denitrifying bacteria (e.g., Pseudomonas stutzeri ), for a recent review see Eady et al. 263 This is a two-electron reduction from N 2 O to N 2 and water according to Equation (16) (16) N 2 O + 2 e − + 2 H + → N 2 + H 2 O.
2000-9-30 · The crystal structure of nitrous oxide reductase, the enzyme catalyzing the final step of bacterial denitrification in which nitrous oxide is reduced to dinitrogen, exhibits a novel catalytic site, called CuZ. This comprises a cluster of four copper ions bound by seven histidines and three other ligands modeled in the X-ray structure as OH- or H2O.
The membrane-bound component, NosR, necessary for the expression of the nitrous oxide reductase in this strain, may be implicated in this regulation . R. sphaeroides f. sp. denitrificans IL106 is one of the few purple, nonsulfur denitrifying photosynthetic bacteria able to perform a complete denitrification process ( 16, 23, 29, 32, 35 ).
1. Introduction. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) is a colourless, non-toxic gas, commonly known as laughing gas. Since its discovery over 200 years ago, it has found use both as an anaesthetic and a fuel additive. However, in 1908, the invention of …
2019-6-25 · nitrous oxide reductase; denitrification; enzyme refactoring; cofactor biogenesis; structural biology; Nitrous oxide (N 2 O, "laughing gas") is a potent greenhouse gas whose 100-y global warming potential exceeds the one of carbon dioxide (CO 2) by a factor of 300 () s atmospheric concentration increased by ∼20% since preindustrial times and is still growing at …
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2008-10-14 · Nitric oxide reductase (NOR) is a membrane-bound enzyme that catalyzes the 2e − reduction of nitric oxide (NO) to nitrous oxide (N 2 O), an obligatory step involved in the sequential reduction of nitrate to dinitrogen known as bacterial denitrification. The active site of NOR consists of a monohistidine ligated five-coordinate heme and a trisimidazole ligated nonheme Fe B.
Introduction. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) is a potent greenhouse gas, and its potential to increase global warming is approximately 300-fold higher than CO 2 (Tian et al., 2018).Globally, the primary sources that release N 2 O into the atmosphere are soil, ocean, manure application, industries, and biomass burning (Thomson et al., 2012).The nitrification and denitrification processes, …
Nitrous oxide reductase is the last enzyme of the denitrification cycle and is the only known enzyme to catalyze in vivo the reduction of nitrous oxide to molecular nitrogen. This enzyme was first isolated in 1972, though most of its spectroscopic and kinetic properties were only determined in the late 80s and 90s, and up to now many of this ...
2012-11-27 · Agricultural and industrial practices more than doubled the intrinsic rate of terrestrial N fixation over the past century with drastic consequences, including increased atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O) concentrations. N2O is a potent greenhouse gas and contributor to ozone layer destruction, and its release from fixed N is almost entirely controlled by microbial activities.
2017-12-15 · Nitrous oxide (N20) respiration by the denitrifying bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri requires the synthesis of the multi-copper enzyme N20 reductase. nosZ, the structural gene for this enzyme, is part of a DNA region of approximately 8 kbp that carries several essential genes. Insertional mutagenesis of the region downstream of
Nitrous-oxide reductase is part of a bacterial respiratory system which is activated under anaerobic conditions in the presence of nitrate or nitrous oxide. UniRule annotation Catalytic activity i. 2 [Fe(III)cytochrome c] + H 2 O + N 2 = 2 [Fe(II)cytochrome c] + 2 H + + nitrous oxide. UniRule annotation. EC: 1.7.2.4 ...
Functional assembly of nitrous oxide reductase provides insights into copper site maturation Lin Zhanga, Anja Wüsta, Benedikt Prassera, Christoph Müllera, and Oliver Einslea,b,1 aInstitut für Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; and bBIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, 79104 Freiburg, Germany Edited by Robert Huber, Max …
1989-2-5 · Nitrous oxide reductase from Wolinella succinogenes was purified very nearly to homogeneity. The enzyme was found to be dimeric, with Mr = 162,000 and…
2019-5-26 · The aerobic purification of Pseudomonas nautica 617 nitrous oxide reductase yielded two forms of the enzyme exhibiting different chromatographic behaviors. The protein contains six copper atoms per monomer, arranged in two centers named CuA and CuZ. CuZ could be neither oxidized nor further reduced under our experimental conditions, and exhibits a 4-line EPR …
Nitrous-oxide reductase is part of a bacterial respiratory system which is activated under anaerobic conditions in the presence of nitrate or nitrous oxide. "Nitrous oxide reductase from denitrifying Pseudomonas perfectomarina. Purification and properties of …
2000-3-1 · A. to Cu. Z. The crystal structure of nitrous oxide reductase reveals a novel tetranuclear copper cluster and an unusual dimeric structure. One of the main branches of the bacterial inorganic ...
2007-1-1 · 5.1. Introduction. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) is an inorganic metabolite of the prokaryotic cell during denitrification. Thus, denitrifiers comprise the principal group of N 2 O producers, with roles played also by nitrifiers, methanotrophic bacteria, and fungi. Among them, only denitrifying prokaryotes have the ability to convert N 2 O into N 2 nversion of N 2 O into N 2 is the last …
Nitrous oxide reductase (NosZ), responsible for the conversion of N2O to N2 in denitrifiers, requires copper for its activity (Brown et al., ... Iron oxide minerals are ubiquitous in soils ...
2016-5-2 · The short- and long-term influences of ferric iron (Fe(III)) on nutrients removal and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emission during SNDPR process were evaluated. According to the continuous cycle experiments, it was concluded that the addition of Fe(III) could lower the nitrogen removal of the following cycle during SNDPR process, which was mainly induced by the …
Unexpected nondenitrifier nitrous oxide reductase gene diversity and abundance in soils Robert A. Sanford3, Darlene D. Wagnerb, Qingzhong Wuc, Joanne C. Chee-Sanfordd, Sara H. Thomas0, Claribel Cruz-Garcíac, Gina Rodríguez0,6, Arturo Massol-Deyáe, Kishore K. Krishnanif, Kirsti M. Ritalahti9''h,
2010-12-17 · Nitric oxide reductase (NOR) is an iron-containing enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of nitric oxide (NO) to generate a major greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide (N 2 O). Here, we report the crystal structure of NOR from Pseudomonas aeruginosa at 2.7 angstrom resolution. The structure reveals details of the catalytic binuclear center.
Here we studied the formation of nitric oxide (NO) and nitrous oxide (N (2)O) due to chemical nitrite reduction by ferrous iron (Fe (II)). Reduction of nitrite and NO coupled to Fe (II) oxidation ...
2014-9-3 · Nitrous-oxide reductase is part of a bacterial respiratory system which is activated under anaerobic conditions in the presence of nitrate or nitrous oxide. UniRule annotation ARBA annotation. Catalytic activity i. 2 [Fe(III)cytochrome c] + H 2 O + N 2 = 2 [Fe(II)cytochrome c] + 2 H + + nitrous oxide. UniRule annotation ...
2017-5-4 · growth. Nitrous oxide reductase is a multicopper protein which catalyzes the transformation shown in Eqn (1). The N20 + 2e- + 2H'' +N2 + H20 (1) enzyme has a molecular mass of approximately 220 kDa and consists of two presumably identical subunits [l]. N20 is also reduced to dinitrogen by the iron-molyb-
Bacterial nitrous oxide (N 2 O) respiration depends on the polytopic membrane protein NosR for the expression of N 2 O reductase from the nosZ gene. We constructed His-tagged NosR and purified it from detergent-solubilized membranes of Pseudomonas stutzeri ATCC 14405. NosR is an iron-sulfur flavoprotein with redox centers positioned at opposite sides of the cytoplasmic …
to nitrous oxide as a working hypothesis. Keywords: nitric oxide reductase; denitrification; nitrous oxide generation; haem; non-haem iron; haem-copper oxidase superfamily 1. INTRODUCTION Nitric oxide reductase (NOR) is an iron-containing enzyme and catalyses the reduction of nitric oxide (NO) to nitrous oxide (N20), according to the following ...
2003-10-3 · Nitrous-oxide reductase is part of a bacterial respiratory system which is activated under anaerobic conditions in the presence of nitrate or nitrous oxide. Catalytic activity i. 2 [Fe(III)cytochrome c] + H 2 O + N 2 = 2 [Fe(II)cytochrome c] + 2 H + + nitrous oxide. EC: 1.7.2.4. Source: Rhea. Show » « Hide] + + =] + + + ...