Carbon metabolic pathways in phototrophic bacteria and their broader evolutionary implications

KH Tang, YJ Tang, RE Blankenship - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Photosynthesis is the biological process that converts solar energy to biomass, bio-products,
and biofuel. It is the only major natural solar energy storage mechanism on Earth. To satisfy …

How Half a Century of Research was Required to Understand Bacterial Growth on C1 and C2 Compounds; the Story of the Serine Cycle and the Ethylmalonyl-CoA …

C Anthony - Science progress, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
For bacterial growth on substrates with only one or two carbon atoms, special assimilation
pathways are required. In 1957, the glyoxylate cycle of Kornberg and Krebs was described …

Ambient temperature CO2 fixation to pyruvate and subsequently to citramalate over iron and nickel nanoparticles

T Beyazay, KS Belthle, C Farès, M Preiner… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The chemical reactions that formed the building blocks of life at origins required catalysts,
whereby the nature of those catalysts influenced the type of products that accumulated …

Synthesis of C5-dicarboxylic acids from C2-units involving crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase: The ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway

TJ Erb, IA Berg, V Brecht, M Müller… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Fifty years ago, Kornberg and Krebs established the glyoxylate cycle as the pathway for the
synthesis of cell constituents from C2-units. However, since then, many bacteria have been …

X13CMS: Global Tracking of Isotopic Labels in Untargeted Metabolomics

X Huang, YJ Chen, K Cho, I Nikolskiy… - Analytical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Studies of isotopically labeled compounds have been fundamental to understanding
metabolic pathways and fluxes. They have traditionally, however, been used in conjunction …

The Complete Genome Sequence and Analysis of the Epsilonproteobacterium Arcobacter butzleri

WG Miller, CT Parker, M Rubenfield, GL Mendz… - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Background Arcobacter butzleri is a member of the epsilon subdivision of the Proteobacteria
and a close taxonomic relative of established pathogens, such as Campylobacter jejuni and …

A bicyclic autotrophic CO2 fixation pathway in Chloroflexus aurantiacus

S Herter, G Fuchs, A Bacher, W Eisenreich - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2002 - ASBMB
Phototrophic CO 2 assimilation by the primitive, green eubacterium Chloroflexus
aurantiacus has been shown earlier to proceed in a cyclic mode via 3-hydroxypropionate …

Metabolic network modeling of redox balancing and biohydrogen production in purple nonsulfur bacteria

O Hädicke, H Grammel, S Klamt - BMC systems biology, 2011 - Springer
Background Purple nonsulfur bacteria (PNSB) are facultative photosynthetic bacteria and
exhibit an extremely versatile metabolism. A central focus of research on PNSB dealt with …

Study of an alternate glyoxylate cycle for acetate assimilation by Rhodobacter sphaeroides

BE Alber, R Spanheimer… - Molecular …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms, which grow on organic substrates that are metabolized via acetyl‐CoA, are
faced with the problem to form all cell constituents from this C2‐unit. The problem was …

The Moon‐Forming Impact and the Autotrophic Origin of Life

N Mrnjavac, JLE Wimmer, M Brabender… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Moon‐forming impact vaporized part of Earth's mantle, and turned the rest into a magma
ocean, from which carbon dioxide degassed into the atmosphere, where it stayed until water …