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Biological Nickel

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Nickel has so far been implicated as a cofactor in only a handful of biological reactions. These reactions are, however, central to many archae and bacteria as they provide reducing power from molecular hydrogen oxidation, readily available nitrogen from urease (also in plants and fungi) and acetyl-coenzyme A from CO and CO2. As new microbial proteins are studied, the role of nickel is likely to extent to several other metabolic processeses. One of the major issues concerning catalytic Ni is whether it can be redox active in the biological context. Recent results concerning hydrogenases and CODHs indicate that their catalyses are carried out by NiFe centers; thus the role of Ni in these enzymes may be essentially catalytic without necessarily involving redox chemistry.

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Fontecilla-Camps, J.C. (1998). Biological Nickel. In: Clarke, M.J., et al. Bioinorganic Chemistry. Structure and Bonding, vol 91. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0103373

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