Van Andel Institute, University of Freiburg study reveals insights into enzyme that combats a common greenhouse gas - EurekAlert

An enzyme that combats the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) may one day give scientists a potent new tool for reducing the amount of the gas in the atmosphere thanks in part to new findings published today in Nature.

image: Three states of the maturation apparatus of N2O reductase: A complex of the proteins NosF (yellow), NosY (red) and NosD (green) changes its conformation by consuming biochemical energy and can… [+5172 chars]

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