Characterization of a soluble NADH-independent nitrate reductase from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas capsulata.
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The assimilatory nitrate reductase was purified 60-fold from a newly isolated, nitrate assmilating strain of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas capsulata. The enzyme had a molecular weight of about 180 000 dalton and was typically prokaryotic in that it was not active with reduced pyridine nucleotides but rather with reduced flavins.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. Section C, Biosciences
دوره 32 11-12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1977