Bacteria require iron as a cofactor in essential processes such as respiration, DNA synthesis and defence against oxidative stress. Yet iron is scarce in many environments due to its low solubility ...
Cations are ions that are positively charged. Anions are ions that are negatively charged. Ions are charged atoms or molecules. If a balanced atom loses one or more electrons, it will become a ...
Berzelii Center EXSELENT on Porous Materials, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden ...
The [Mo:7Fe:9S:C] iron-molybdenum cofactor (FeMoco) of nitrogenase is the largest known metal cluster and catalyses the 6-electron reduction of dinitrogen to ammonium in biological nitrogen fixation.
Oxic environments are hazardous. Molecular oxygen adventitiously abstracts electrons from many redox enzymes, continuously forming intracellular superoxide and hydrogen peroxide. These species can ...
The importance of iron in living systems can be traced to the many complexes within which it is found, to its chemical mobility in undergoing oxidation–reduction reactions, and to the abundance of ...
Superoxide, the one-electron reduced form of dioxygen, is produced in the extracellular milieu of aquatic microbes through a range of abiotic chemical processes and also by microbes themselves. Due to ...
Fascination with supramolecular chemistry over the last few decades has led to the synthesis of an ever-increasing number of elegant and intricate functional structures with sizes that approach ...