Second and outer coordination sphere effects in nitrogenase, hydrogenase, formate dehydrogenase, and CO dehydrogenase

ST Stripp, BR Duffus, V Fourmond, C Léger… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Gases like H2, N2, CO2, and CO are increasingly recognized as critical feedstock in “green”
energy conversion and as sources of nitrogen and carbon for the agricultural and chemical …

Spectroscopy in complex environments from QM–MM simulations

UN Morzan, DJ Alonso de Armino, NO Foglia… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The applications of multiscale quantum–classical (QM–MM) approaches have shown an
extraordinary expansion and diversification in the last couple of decades. A great proportion …

Metallic Co 9 S 8 nanosheets grown on carbon cloth as efficient binder-free electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction in neutral media

LL Feng, M Fan, Y Wu, Y Liu, GD Li, H Chen… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of efficient non-noble metal hydrogen-evolving electrocatalysts is of
paramount importance for sustainable hydrogen production from water. Herein, we report …

Structure and function of [NiFe] hydrogenases

H Ogata, W Lubitz, Y Higuchi - The journal of biochemistry, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Hydrogenases catalyze the reversible conversion of molecular hydrogen to protons and
electrons via a heterolytic splitting mechanism. The active sites of [NiFe] hydrogenases …

Efficient long-range conduction in cable bacteria through nickel protein wires

HTS Boschker, PLM Cook, L Polerecky… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Filamentous cable bacteria display long-range electron transport, generating electrical
currents over centimeter distances through a highly ordered network of fibers embedded in …

Reversible glutamate coordination to high-valent nickel protects the active site of a [NiFe] hydrogenase from oxygen

CJ Kulka-Peschke, AC Schulz, C Lorent… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
NAD+-reducing [NiFe] hydrogenases are valuable biocatalysts for H2-based energy
conversion and the regeneration of nucleotide cofactors. While most hydrogenases are …

[HTML][HTML] Unusual structures and unknown roles of FeS clusters in metalloenzymes seen from a resonance Raman spectroscopic perspective

G Caserta, L Zuccarello, C Barbosa, CM Silveira… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
The universe of known biological FeS clusters is constantly enlarging. Besides the
conventional, well described [2Fe–2S],[3Fe–4S] and cubane [4Fe–4S] clusters, novel …

Advancing techniques for investigating the enzyme–electrode interface

N Kornienko, KH Ly, WE Robinson… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Enzymes are the essential catalytic components of biology and adsorbing redox-
active enzymes on electrode surfaces enables the direct probing of their function. Through …

Proton transfer in the catalytic cycle of [NiFe] hydrogenases: insight from vibrational spectroscopy

PA Ash, R Hidalgo, KA Vincent - ACS catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
Catalysis of H2 production and oxidation reactions is critical in renewable energy systems
based around H2 as a clean fuel, but the present reliance on platinum-based catalysts is not …

Vibrational spectroscopy reveals the initial steps of biological hydrogen evolution

S Katz, J Noth, M Horch, HS Shafaat, T Happe… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
[FeFe] hydrogenases are biocatalytic model systems for the exploitation and investigation of
catalytic hydrogen evolution. Here, we used vibrational spectroscopic techniques to …