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Summary: In cell-free extracts, pyruvate, formate, malate and NADPH provided reducing equivalents to the nitrogenase of the nitrogen-fixing colform, . Two electron carriers were isolated from extracts, both capable of mediating the transfer of reducing power between illuminated spinach chloroplasts and the nitrogenases of Klebsiella or . One electron carrier was a flavoprotein, named Klebsiella flavodoxin (molecular weight about 21000); the second was not characterized. A similarity is suggested between Klebsiella and in the generation and transport of low-potential reducing power from pyruvate.

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