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Cotton Effects in Plant Ferredoxin and Xanthine Oxidase

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The position and magnitude of the optically active absorption bands in the non-haem iron proteins xanthine oxidase and spinach ferredoxin are found to be very similar. A study of the Cotton effects in these proteins suggests that xanthine oxidase contains four identical pairs of iron atoms while spinach ferredoxin contains only one pair.

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  1. University Chemical Laboratory, Canterbury, Kent

    K. GARBETT & R. D. GILLARD

  2. Chester Beatty Research Institute, Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital, London

    P. F. KNOWLES

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield,

    J. E. STANGROOM

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GARBETT, K., GILLARD, R., KNOWLES, P. et al. Cotton Effects in Plant Ferredoxin and Xanthine Oxidase. Nature 215, 824–828 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215824a0

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