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R A Schmitz1, S P Albracht, R K Thauer.
Abstract
In Methanobacterium wolfei two formylmethanofuran dehydrogenases are present, one of which is a molybdenum- and the other a tungsten enzyme. We report here that also the 'molybdenum' enzyme contained tungsten when the archaeon was grown on molybdenum-deprived medium supplemented with tungstate (1 microM). Unexpectedly the tungsten-substituted molybdenum enzyme was catalytically active and displayed a rhombic EPR signal which was attributed to tungsten by the characteristic 183W splitting.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID: 1324851 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)80743-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124