Publisher's Synopsis
Focusing on recent advances in the molybdenum enzymes Moco and FeMoco and their model systems, this study: discusses the recent crystallographic determination of the structure of the molybdenum-iron protein in the nitrogenase enzyme; highlights the latest results on the molybdenum cofactor Moco, including the full organic structure that has just been determined; and includes an overview of molybdenum in biology and the role of molybdoenzymes in the nitrogen, sulfer and carbon cycles.