Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3900, USA.
Science. 2010 Aug 6;329(5992):642. doi: 10.1126/science.1191455.
Vanadium nitrogenase not only reduces dinitrogen to ammonia but also reduces carbon monoxide to ethylene, ethane, and propane. The parallelism between the two reactions suggests a potential link in mechanism and evolution between the carbon and nitrogen cycles on Earth.
钒氮酶不仅能将氮气还原为氨,还能将一氧化碳还原为乙烯、乙烷和丙烷。这两个反应之间的平行性表明,地球上碳氮循环的机制和演化之间可能存在潜在联系。