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ArticleChemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2025

What Can be Learned From the Electrostatic Environments Within Nitrogenase Enzymes?

Thijs Stuyver, Olena Protsenko, Davide Avagliano, Thomas Ward

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Article in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Thijs StuyverEcole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de ParisUniversité PSL, i-CLeHS, CNRS, Paris, 75 005, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8322-0572
Olena ProtsenkoEcole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de ParisUniversité PSL, i-CLeHS, CNRS, Paris, 75 005, France.
Davide AvaglianoEcole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de ParisUniversité PSL, i-CLeHS, CNRS, Paris, 75 005, France.
Thomas WardDepartment of Chemistry, University of Basel, Mattenstrasse 22, Basel, 4002, Switzerland.

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-22-CPJ1-0093-01NCCR Catalysis 180544NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering 200021_178760Swiss National Science Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitrogen fixation is a fundamental, and yet challenging, chemical transformation due to the intrinsic inertness of dinitrogen. Whereas industrial ammonia synthesis relies on the energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process, nitrogenase enzymes achieve this transformation under ambient conditions-yet at the expense of a remarkably high ATP demand. Understanding their mode of operation could inspire the development of more efficient synthetic catalysts. In this study, we scrutinize the electrostatic environment surrounding nitrogenase's active site, the so-called M-cluster. Strikingly, we observe that all types of M-clusters exhibit similar trends, with distinct patterns around the individual metal sites that have been proposed as potential N

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NitrogenaseBiocatalysisCatalysisCatalytic DomainIronNitrogenNitrogen FixationStatic ElectricityIronNitrogenNitrogenasecatalysiselectric fieldsenzyme catalysisnitrogenasenitrogen fixation

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PMID40539980
PMCPMC12272023

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