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. 1968 Dec;110(3):485–489. doi: 10.1042/bj1100485

The stoicheiometry of electron transfer by bacterial and plant ferredoxins

M C W Evans 1, D O Hall 1, H Bothe 1, F R Whatley 1
PMCID: PMC1187377  PMID: 4387387

Abstract

1. The number of electrons carried by ferredoxins from spinach, the blue–green alga Anacystis nidulans, the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium welchii and the photosynthetic bacterium Chromatium was determined. 2. Ferredoxins were reduced by illuminated chloroplasts, and the stoicheiometry of the reoxidation in the dark of the ferredoxins by NADP and benzyl viologen was measured. 3. Spinach and A. nidulans ferredoxins were found to be one-electron carriers, and Cl. welchii and Chromatium ferredoxins were two-electron carriers.

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