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Reviews on structure and function of nickel-iron hydrogenase

  1. Albracht, S.P.J. (1994) Nickel hydrogenases: in search of the active site. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1188, 167-204.
  2. Cammack, R. (1995) Redox enzymes. Splitting molecular hydrogen. Nature 373, 556-557.
  3. Cammack, R., Fernandez, V.M. and Schneider, K. (1986) Activation and active sites of nickel­containing hydrogenases. Biochimie 68, 85-91.
  4. Cammack, R., Fernandez, V.M. and Hatchikian, E.C. (1994) Nickel-iron hydrogenase. Methods Enzymol. 243, 43-68.
  5. Fauque, G., Peck, H.D., Jr., Moura, J.J.G., Huynh, B.­H., Berlier, Y., DerVartanian, D.V., Teixeira, M., Przybyla, A.E., Lespinat, P.A., Moura, I. and LeGall, J. (1988) The three classes of hydrogenases from sulfate­reducing bacteria of the genus Desulfovibrio. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 4, 299-344.
  6. Fontecilla­Camps, J.C. (1996) The active site of Ni-Fe hydrogenases: model chemistry and crystallographic results. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 1, 91-98.
  7. Fontecilla­Camps, J.C. (1998) Biological nickel. Structure and Bonding 91, 1-30.
  8. Fontecilla­Camps, J.C., Volbeda, A. and Frey, M. (1996) Hydrogen biocatalysis: a tale of two metals. Trends Biotechnol. 14, 417-420.
  9. Fontecilla­Camps, J.C., Frey, M., Garcin, E., Hatchikian, E.C. Montet, Y., Piras, C., Vernède, X. and Volbeda, A. (1997) Hydrogenases: a hydrogen­metabolizing enzyme. What do the crystal structure tell us about its mode of action? Biochimie 79, 661-666.
  10. Frey, M. (1998) Nickel-iron hydrogenases: structural and functional properties. Structure and Bonding 90, 97-126.
  11. Friedrich, B. and Schwartz, E. (1993) Molecular biology of hydrogen utilization in aerobic chemolithotrophs. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 47, 351-383.
  12. Garcin, E., Montet, Y., Volbeda, A., Hatchikian, C., Frey, M. and Fontecilla­Camps, J.C. (1998) Structural bases for the catalytic mechanism of [NiFe] hydrogenases. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 26, 396-401.
  13. Gogotov, I.N. (1986) Hydrogenases of phototrophic microorganisms. Biochimie 68, 181-187.
  14. Grahame, D.A. (1988) A summary of new findings in research on hydrogenase. BioFactors 1, 279-283.
  15. Happe, R.P., Roseboom, W., Pierik, A.J., Albracht, S.P.J. and Bagley, K.A. (1997) Biological activation of hydrogen. Nature 385, 126.
  16. Nandi, R. and Sengupta, S. (1998) Microbial production of hydrogen: an overview. Crit. Rev. Microbiol. 24, 61-84.
  17. Przybyla, A.E., Robbins, J., Menon, N. and Peck, H.D., Jr. (1992) Structure-function relationships among the nickel­containing hydrogenases. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 8, 109-135.
  18. Reeve, J.N. and Beckler, G.S. (1990) Conservation of primary structure in prokaryotic hydrogenases. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 7, 419-424.
  19. Sawers, G. (1994) The hydrogenases and formate dehydrogenases of Escherichia coli. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 66, 57-88.
  20. Thauer, R.K., Klein, A.R. and Hartmann, G.C. (1996) Reactions with molecular hydrogen in microorganisms: Evidence for a purely organic hydrogenation catalyst. Chem. Rev. 96, 3031-3042.
  21. Vignais, P.M. and Toussaint, B. (1994) Molecular biology of membrane­bound H2 uptake hydrogenases. Arch. Microbiol. 161, 1-10.
  22. Vignais, P.M., Colbeau, A., Willison, J.C. and Jouanneau, Y. (1985) Hydrogenase, nitrogenase, and hydrogen metabolism in the photosynthetic bacteria. Adv. Microb. Physiol. 26, 155-234.
  23. Volbeda, A., Fontecilla­Camps, J.C. and Frey, M. (1996) Novel metal sites in protein structures. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 6, 804-812.
  24. Wu, L.F. and Mandrand, M.A. (1993) Microbial hydrogenases: primary structure, classification, signatures and phylogeny. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 10, 243-269.
  25. Yagi, T. (1986) Active center of hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki F. In Matsubara, H., Katsube, Y. and Wada, K., Eds. Iron-sulfur protein research. Japan Scientific Societies Press, Tokyo and Springer­Verlag, Berlin, pp. 198-209.
  26. Zorin, N.A. (1986) Redox properties and active center of phototrophic bacteria hydrogenases. Biochimie 68, 97-101.
Bibliography on structural studies of nickel-iron hydrogenase