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Identification of the iron-sulfur center of spinach ferredoxin-nitrite reductase as a tetranuclear center, and preliminary EPR studies of mechanism.

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EPR spectroscopic and chemical analyses of spinach nitrite reductase show that the enzyme contains one reducible iron-sulfur center, and one site for binding either cyanide or nitrite, per siroheme, indicating a role for the Fe4S4 center in catalysis.
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This article is published in Journal of Biological Chemistry.The article was published on 1979-02-25 and is currently open access. It has received 111 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ferredoxin—nitrite reductase & Nitrite reductase.

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Ferredoxin-dependent chloroplast enzymes.

TL;DR: Article de synthese traitant des proprietes biochimiques and structurales des ferredoxines des cyanobacteries, algues et plantes superieures, en particulier dans les mecanismes d'action des enzymes NADP.
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Characterization of the flavoprotein moieties of NADPH-sulfite reductase from Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli. Physicochemical and catalytic properties, amino acid sequence deduced from DNA sequence of cysJ, and comparison with NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase.

TL;DR: Physicochemical analyses and deduced amino acid sequences indicate that SiR-FP is an octamer of identical 66-kDa peptides and contains 4 FAD and 4 FMN per octamer, and shares a catalytic mechanism with NADPH-cytochrome P-450 oxidoreductase.
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The isolation of a hexaheme cytochrome from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans and its identification as a new type of nitrite reductase.

TL;DR: The dithionite-reduced nitrite reductase was demonstrated to be auto-oxidizable even in the presence of potassium cyanide and the difference in Km values seems to exclude the possibility of hydroxylamine being a free intermediate in the reduction of nitrite.
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Isolation of cDNA clones coding for spinach nitrite reductase: complete sequence and nitrate induction.

TL;DR: The complete primary sequence of the precursor protein for spinach nitrite reductase has been deduced from cloned cDNAs, which most likely serve as a transit peptide involved in directing this nuclearencoded protein into the chloroplast.
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