Expression of a functional oxygen-labile nitrogenase component in the mitochondrial matrix of aerobically grown yeast

oleh: Gema López-Torrejón, Emilio Jiménez-Vicente, José María Buesa, Jose A. Hernandez, Hemant K. Verma, Luis M. Rubio

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-04-01

Deskripsi

The sensitivity of nitrogenase to oxygen is a major barrier to engineer biological nitrogen fixation into cereal crops by direct nif gene transfer. Here the authors use yeast to show that targeting nitrogenase Fe protein to the mitochondrial matrix overcomes the O2sensitivity impediment.