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BACTERIAL ferredoxin was isolated from C. pasteurianum by Mortenson1 and characterized as a nonhaem iron protein. The term ferredoxin was subsequently broadened to cover other iron-sulphur proteins including those involved in the photosynthetic process in chlroplasts. All ferredoxins have similar electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra and very low E0 values in the neighbourhood of −0.4 V.
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SIEKER, L., ADMAN, E. & JENSEN, L. Structure of the Fe-S Complex in a Bacterial Ferredoxin. Nature 235, 40–42 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/235040a0
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