NOUN
- an enzyme of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms that catalyzes the conversion of nitrogen to ammonia
How To Use nitrogenase In A Sentence
- Time will tell whether these findings are relevant to how dinitrogen is reduced to ammonia in nature on a huge scale by nitrogenase enzymes. Richard R. Schrock - Autobiography
- ATP binding sites are regulatory sites in the nitrogenase and the acetylene reduction active sites are catalytic sites in the nitrogenase.
- There were many good strains which had such potential such as X4 and X1 in Xi'an only in consideration of nitrogenase activity. But few strains with such ability were isolated from Lanzhou.
- In the journal Science, researchers at the University of California-Irvine say they've manipulated a bacterial enzyme called vanadium nitrogenase that usually produces ammonia from nitrogen gas. Chicagotribune.com -