Why oxygen becomes the undoing of proteins

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 09:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Scientists have published a new study explaining why enzymes used for the production of hydrogen are so sensitive to oxygen. They used spectroscopic methods to investigate the time course of the processes that lead to the inactivation of the enzyme’s iron center.

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