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. 1971 Sep;68(9):2016–2018. doi: 10.1073/pnas.68.9.2016

Kinetic Studies on Klebsiella pneumoniae Nitrogenase

R A Parejko 1,*, P W Wilson 1
PMCID: PMC389340  PMID: 4943781

Abstract

Purified cell-free extracts of Klebsiella pneumoniae reduce N2, N3-, CN-, or C2H2 in the absence of an ATP-generating system when substrate concentrations of ATP are used. The optimum Mg++/ATP ratio is 0.5. Michaelis constants for the reduction of substrates calculated from kinetic studies of K. pneumoniae nitrogenase were similar to those that have been reported for Azotobacter vinelandii and Clostridium pasteurianum. Hill plots of the kinetic data are consistent with the view that there is a single binding site for each of the substrates N2, C2H2, CN-, N3-, and ATP. Inhibition studies of K. pneumoniae nitrogenase indicate that ADP competitively inhibits C2H2 reduction. Also, the reducible substrates, N3- and CN-, inhibit C2H2 reduction. The inhibition by azide is noncompetitive, that by cyanide is mixed.

Keywords: Michaelis constant, ATP, Clostridium, Azotobacter, ADP inhibition

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