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The coupling of electron transfer in nitrogenase to the hydrolysis of magnesium adenosine triphosphate.

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This article is published in Biochemical Society Transactions.The article was published on 1979-08-01. It has received 21 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: ATP hydrolysis & Electron transfer.

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Mössbauer, EPR, and magnetization studies of the Azotobacter vinelandii Fe protein. Evidence for a [4Fe-4S]1+ cluster with spin S = 3/2.

TL;DR: The studies show that reduced Av2 in the native state is heterogeneous, which explains why the integrated spin intensity of the g = 1.94 EPR signal is substantially less than 1 spin/4 Fe atoms.
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Electron Transfer in Nitrogenase

TL;DR: This review focuses on the structural and thermodynamic redox properties of nitrogenase component proteins and their complexes, as well as on new insights regarding the mechanism of ET reactions during catalysis and how they are coupled to ATP hydrolysis.
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Electron Transfer within Nitrogenase: Evidence for a Deficit-Spending Mechanism

TL;DR: The data for the β-153(Cys) deletion MoFe protein variant provide an argument against an alternative two-step "hopping" ET model that reverses the two ET steps, with the Fe protein first transferring an electrons to the P cluster, which in turn transfers an electron to FeMo-cofactor.
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Electron transfer precedes ATP hydrolysis during nitrogenase catalysis

TL;DR: This work establishes the order of all the key events during one catalytic cycle of electron delivery in nitrogenase, showing that ATP hydrolysis follows electron transfer, and guides future studies aimed at understanding what roles ATP binding and hydroleysis play in the nitrogenase mechanism.
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Evidence That the Pi Release Event Is the Rate-Limiting Step in the Nitrogenase Catalytic Cycle

TL;DR: The findings indicate that with this reductant, the rate-limiting step in the reaction cycle is not protein-protein dissociation or reduction of the oxidized Fe protein, but rather events associated with the Pi release step.
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