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ReviewChemical reviews2020

The Spectroscopy of Nitrogenases.

Casey Van Stappen, Laure Decamps, George E Cutsail, Ragnar Bjornsson, Justin T Henthorn, James A Birrell, Serena DeBeer

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Review in Chemical reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. A Proposed Complete-Cycle Mechanism for Conversion of NChembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  12. Magnetic interactions between metal sites in complex enzymes.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2025
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  13. Nature communications · 2025
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  14. Synthetic models of the nitrogenase FeMo cofactor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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20 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Casey Van StappenMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1770-2231
Laure DecampsMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
George E CutsailMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7378-9474
Ragnar BjornssonMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2167-8374
Justin T HenthornMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4876-2680
James A BirrellMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0939-0573
Serena DeBeerMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5196-3400

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitrogenases are responsible for biological nitrogen fixation, a crucial step in the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. These enzymes utilize a two-component protein system and a series of iron-sulfur clusters to perform this reaction, culminating at the FeMco active site (M = Mo, V, Fe), which is capable of binding and reducing N

Indexed as

Metals, HeavyModels, MolecularNitrogenaseSpectrum AnalysisMetals, HeavyNitrogenase

Identifiers

PMID32237739
PMCPMC7318057

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