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What is a nitrogenase?

What is a nitrogenase? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) Any enzyme, especially in nitrogen-fixing bacteria, that catalyzes the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia.
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The macrophytes of wetlands are known, and in some cases, the nitrogenase activity of these plants has been examined as well.
Strain PCC 6313 is a strict photoautotroph and is able to synthesize nitrogenase anaerobically.
Nitrogen stabilizing bacteria convert molecular nitrogen to ammonia by enzymatic complex of nitrogenase.
The catalytic conversion is achieved either industrially, using heterogeneous catalysts or biologically, by the nitrogenase enzyme.
Of the plants without NA, tamarack rhizosphere nitrogenase activity is not reported in the literature, but species of Myrica nodulate with Frankia to become diazotrophic.
Nitrogenase is a bacterial enzyme that is responsible for reduction of N2 to NH3 and can lead the reactions in normal pressure and temperature.

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