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Clostridium pasteurianum W5 is an obligately anaerobic, free-living nitrogen fixer. It was one of the first nitrogen-fixing organisms isolated (16, 26), and it has been studied in the laboratory for almost 100 years now. Consistent nitrogen fixation by cell-free preparations was first obtained with this anaerobe (4), which marked a turning point in studies of the biochemistry of nitrogen fixation (2). Although nitrogenase from C. pasteurianum has been very extensively studied and it possesses a number of unique properties (5), the nitrogen-fixation (nif) genes of C. pasteurianum have been studied only in recent years.
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Chen, JS., Wang, SZ., Johnson, J.L. (1990). Nitrogen fixation genes of Clostridium pasteurianum . In: Gresshoff, P.M., Roth, L.E., Stacey, G., Newton, W.E. (eds) Nitrogen Fixation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6432-0_48
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