Stopped-flow spectrophotometry and e.p.r. spectroscopy were used to study the kinetics of reduction by dithionite of the oxidized Fe protein of nitrogenase from Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp2.0 ) in the presence of MgADP at 230C at pH7.4. The active reductant, SO2-, produced by the predissociation of S2042= 2SO2-, reacts with Kp20. (MgADP),, with k 3.0 x 106 + 0.4 x 106 M-l' s-1. The inhibition of ...