4-Azido-2-nitrophenyl phosphate (ANPP), a photoreactive derivative of inorganic phosphate (Pj) [Lauquin, G., Pougeois, R., & Vignais, P. V. (1980) Biochemistry 19, 4620-4626], was used to study the P, binding site in purified spinach chloroplast coupling factor 1 (CFj). Upon photoirradiation with visible light, [32P]ANPP bound covalently to CF, and inactivated the enzyme. The labeling stoichiometry was measured in the presence of either EDTA, Mg2+, or Ca2+.