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The iron-bearing protein ferredoxin is present in all photosynthetlc cells. It has now been shown that ferredoxin can catalyse, by two distinct photochemical reactions, the production of ATP in cell-free photosynthetic systems at rates comparable with the maximum rates of photosynthesis in vivo. This is strong evidence for the view that ferredoxin plays a key part in photosynthesis.
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ARNON, D., TSUJIMOTO, H. & MCSWAIN, B. Ferredoxin and Photosynthetic Phosphorylation. Nature 214, 562–566 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214562a0
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