All diazotrophic bacteria and archaea isolated so far utilise a nitrogenase enzyme containing molybdenum in the active site co-factor to fix atmospheric dinitrogen to ammonia. However, in addition to the Mo-dependent nitrogenase, some nitrogen-fixing prokaryotes also express genetically distinct alt...
To address the question of how photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris differentially regulates gene expression of three nitrogenase isozymes (Mo, V, and Fe nitrogenases), we constructed Mo strain (Mo nitrogenase only strain), V strain (V nitrogenase only strain), and Fe strain (Fe nitro...
