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pyruvate-flavodoxin oxidoreductase activity

Known as: NifJ, pyruvate:flavodoxin oxidoreductase activity 
Catalysis of the reaction: pyruvate + CoA + oxidized flavodoxin = acetyl-CoA + CO2 + reduced flavodoxin. [PMID:6352705]
National Institutes of Health

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2015
2015
New insight in the photoheterotrophic growth of the icl-purple bacterium
26 Purple non-sulfur bacteria are well known for their metabolic versatility. One of these bacteria, 27 Rhodospirillum rubrum S1H… 
2004
2004
The Electron Transfer Flavoprotein fixABCX Gene Products from Azospirillum brasilense Show a NifA-Dependent Promoter Regulation
The complete nucleotide sequence of the A. brasilense fixA, fixB, fixC, and fixX genes is reported here. Sequence similarities… 
2000
2000
Effects of Perturbations of the Nitrogenase Electron Transfer Chain on Reversible ADP-Ribosylation of Nitrogenase Fe Protein in Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains Bearing the Rhodospirillum rubrum dra…
ABSTRACT The redox state of nitrogenase Fe protein is shown to affect regulation of ADP-ribosylation in Klebsiella… 
1998
1998
Flavodoxin-dependent pyruvate oxidation, acetate production and metronidazole reduction by Helicobacter pylori.
Helicobacter pylori flavodoxin was purified to homogeneity from cell extracts of strain NCTC 11637. The molecular weight of the… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
The heterocyst-specific fdxH gene product of the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 is important but not essential for nitrogen fixation
Abstract To clarify the role of the heterocyst-specific [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin in cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation, mutational… 
1996
1996
Laser flash absorption spectroscopy study of flavodoxin reduction by photosystem I in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002.
The photoreduction of flavodoxin by trimeric photosystem I, both from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002, was… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Growth of the cyanobacterium Anabaena on molecular nitrogen: NifJ is required when iron is limited.
The nifJ gene of Klebsiella pneumoniae encodes an oxidoreductase required for the transfer of electrons from pyruvate to… 
1987
1987
Use of flavin and flavodoxin semiquinones as kinetic probes to elucidate the factors which determine reaction rate constants and biological specificity for electron transfer proteins
1982
1982
Intragenic complementation by the nifJ-coded protein of Klebsiella pneumoniae
A single mutation, nifC1005 (Jin et al. Sci. Sin. 23:108-118, 1980), located between nifH and nifJ in the nif cluster of… 
1975
1975
Physicochemical properties of flavodoxin from Desulfovibrio vulgaris.
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