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A taste for carbon dioxide

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Researchers led by Johannes Rebelein from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg , Germany , have discovered that some nitrogenases can also deal with another important substrate: They reduce the greenhouse gas CO2 to hydrocarbons (methane, ethylene, ethane) and formic acid.

They found that the iron (Fe) nitrogenase reduces CO2 three times more efficiently than its molybdenum containing counterpart.

This finding suggests that Fe nitrogenase-catalyzed CO2 reduction may indeed be widespread in nature.

Science Advances , 2024 ; 10 ( 33 ) DOI: 10.1126 /sciadv.ado7729 Cite This Page:.

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