{"id":564295,"date":"2019-01-07T08:21:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T12:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2ae724f384bfce6d7219e10cd09fb003"},"modified":"2019-01-07T08:21:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T12:21:24","slug":"illuminating-how-nitrogenase-makes-ammonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=564295","title":{"rendered":"Illuminating how nitrogenase makes ammonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by PNNL computational scientist Simone Raugei have revealed new insights about how this complex enzyme does its job, finding that the seemingly wasteful formation of hydrogen has an essential purpose. Their paper, &#8220;Critical computational analysis illuminates the reductive-elimination mechanism that activates nitrogenase for N2\u00a0reduction,&#8221; was published in the\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u00a0in November 2018. Raugei&#8217;s co-authors are Lance Seefeldt, who holds a joint appointment at PNNL and Utah State University, and Brian Hoffman of Northwestern University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by PNNL computational scientist Simone Raugei have revealed new insights about how this complex enzyme does its job, finding that the seemingly wasteful formation of hydrogen has an essential purpose. Their paper, &#8220;Critical computational analysis illuminates the reductive-elimination mechanism that activates nitrogenase for N2&nbsp;reduction,&#8221; was published in the&nbsp;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences&nbsp;in November 2018. Raugei&#8217;s co-authors are Lance Seefeldt, who holds a joint appointment at PNNL and Utah State University, and Brian Hoffman of Northwestern University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564296,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564295\/revisions\/564296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}