The pterin molybdenum cofactors.

Abstract

crassa, demonstrated that the inactive apoprotein of nitrate reductase in extracts of the mutant could be reconstituted by the addition of denatured preparations of purified molybdoenzymes from animal, fungal, or bacterial origin. This crucial finding showed that mol- ybdoenzymes contain a dissociable entity fitting the description of a cofactor and provided further evidence for the universality of the molybdenum cofactor. The