Agr Quorum Sensing influences the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in Clostridium autoethanogenum. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Acetogenic bacteria are capable of fermenting CO2 and carbon monoxide containing waste-gases into a range of platform chemicals and fuels. Despite major advances in genetic engineering and improving these biocatalysts, several important physiological ...
Piatek P +7 more
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Genomic Insights into Syntrophic Lifestyle of 'Candidatus Contubernalis alkaliaceticus' Based on the Reversed Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway and Mechanism of Direct Electron Transfer. [PDF]
Life (Basel), 2023 The anaerobic oxidation of fatty acids and alcohols occurs near the thermodynamic limit of life. This process is driven by syntrophic bacteria that oxidize fatty acids and/or alcohols, their syntrophic partners that consume the products of this oxidation,
Frolov EN +3 more
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Insights into the genome structure of four acetogenic bacteria with specific reference to the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. [PDF]
Microbiologyopen, 2019 Acetogenic bacteria are obligate anaerobes with the ability of converting carbon dioxide and other one-carbon substrates into acetate through the Wood–Ljungdahl (WL) pathway.
Esposito A +5 more
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Insight into the function and evolution of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in Actinobacteria. [PDF]
ISME J, 2021 Carbon fixation by chemoautotrophic microbes such as homoacetogens had a major impact on the transition from the inorganic to the organic world. Recent reports have shown the presence of genes for key enzymes associated with the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway ...
Jiao JY +17 more
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Methanogenesis and the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway: An Ancient, Versatile, and Fragile Association. [PDF]
Genome Biol Evol, 2016 International audienceMethanogenesis coupled to the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway is one of the most ancient metabolisms for energy generation and carbon fixation in the Archaea.
Borrel G, Adam PS, Gribaldo S.
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Incomplete Wood-Ljungdahl pathway facilitates one-carbon metabolism in organohalide-respiring Dehalococcoides mccartyi. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014 The acetyl-CoA "Wood-Ljungdahl" pathway couples the folate-mediated one-carbon (C1) metabolism to either CO2 reduction or acetate oxidation via acetyl-CoA.
Zhuang WQ +8 more
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Functional Expression of the Clostridium ljungdahlii Acetyl-Coenzyme A Synthase in Clostridium acetobutylicum as Demonstrated by a Novel In Vivo CO Exchange Activity En Route to Heterologous Installation of a Functional Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway. [PDF]
Appl Environ Microbiol, 2018 Engineering the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (WLP) in the established industrial organism Clostridium acetobutylicum would allow for the conversion of carbohydrates into butanol, acetone, and other metabolites at higher yields than are ...
Fast AG, Papoutsakis ET.
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Wood-Ljungdahl pathway utilisation during in situ H2 biomethanation [PDF]
, 2022 Biogas production from organic waste is a waste-to-energy technology with the potential to contribute significantly to sustainable energy production. Upgrading of biogas using in situ biomethanation with hydrogen has the potential for surplus electricity
Nielsen, Jeppe Lund; id_orcid +4 more
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A functional Wood–Ljungdahl pathway devoid of a formate dehydrogenase in the gut acetogens Blautia wexlerae, Blautia luti and beyond [PDF]
, 2022 Species of the genus Blautia are typical inhabitants of the human gut and considered as beneficial gut microbes. However, their role in the gut microbiome and their metabolic features are poorly understood. Blautia schinkii was described as an acetogenic
Trischler, Raphael +4 more
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Potential for homoacetogenesis via the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in Korarchaeia lineages from marine hydrothermal vents. [PDF]
Environ Microbiol Rep, 2023 Vulcano F +4 more
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