Oxygen protection of nitrogenase in the
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Lucas J. Stal; Wolfgang E. Krumbein
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Article
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1985
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Springer
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English
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Oscillatoria sp. strain 23 is a filamentous, nonheterocystous cyanobacterium that fixes nitrogen aerobically. Although, in this organism nitrogenase is inactivated by oxygen a high tolerance is observed. Up to a pO2 of 0.15 atm, oxygen does not have any measurable effects on acetylene reduction. Hig