Molecular interplay of an assembly machinery for nitrous oxide reductase.

Emissions of the critical ozone-depleting and greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (NO) from soils and industrial processes have increased considerably over the last decades. As the final step of bacterial denitrification, NO is reduced to chemically inert N (refs. ) in a reaction that is catalysed by the copper-dependent nitrous oxide reductase (NOR) (ref.