nitrogenase
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nitrogenase
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria generate an enzyme called nitrogenase, sometimes referred to as the "fixer" because it carries out nitrogen fixation.
From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025
In experiments, this apigenin stimulated soil bacteria to form protective biofilms, enabling nitrogenase to fix nitrogen in a usable form that the wheat could absorb.
From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025
This process entails the reduction of atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia, by means of the enzyme nitrogenase.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Likewise, the protein NifEN displays sequence similarity to NifDK, but it plays a role in nitrogenase assembly: It converts an iron-only precursor form to the mature molybdenum cluster and delivers this to NifDK.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 6, 2011
A key step in the global nitrogen cycle is the reduction of atmospheric dinitrogen to ammonia by nitrogenase, a complex metalloenzyme.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 6, 2011
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
