Insight into the function and evolution of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in Actinobacteria. [PDF]
ISME J, 2021 Jiao JY +17 more
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Reduction, evolutionary pattern and positive selection of genes encoding formate dehydrogenase in Wood-Ljungdahl pathway of gastrointestinal acetogens suggests their adaptation to formate-rich habitats. [PDF]
Environ Microbiol Rep, 2023 Acetogens are anaerobes using Wood–Ljungdahl pathway (WLP) as the terminal electron acceptor for both assimilation and dissimilation of CO2 and widely distributed in diverse habitats. However, their habitat adaptation is often unclear.
Yao Y +5 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 The Wood–Ljungdahl pathway (WLP) is a key metabolic component of acetogenic bacteria where it acts as an electron sink. In Archaea, despite traditionally being linked to methanogenesis, the pathway has been found in several Thermoproteota and ...
Vulcano F +4 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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Diverse Energy-Conserving Pathways in Clostridium difficile: Growth in the Absence of Amino Acid Stickland Acceptors and the Role of the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway. [PDF]
J Bacteriol, 2020 Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic, multidrug-resistant, toxin-producing pathogen with major health impacts worldwide. It is the only widespread pathogen harboring a complete set of Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (WLP) genes; however, the role of the WLP in C.
Gencic S, Grahame DA.
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Bacterial estrogenesis without oxygen: Wood-Ljungdahl pathway likely contributed to the emergence of estrogens in the biosphere. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ASignificance Using a testosterone-grown anaerobic bacterium as a model organism, we characterized this unusual anaerobic estrogenesis at the molecular level.
Wang PH +11 more
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Methanogenesis and the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway: An Ancient, Versatile, and Fragile Association. [PDF]
Genome Biol Evol, 2016 Methanogenesis coupled to the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway is one of the most ancient metabolisms for energy generation and carbon fixation in the Archaea. Recent results are sensibly changing our view on the diversity of methane-cycling capabilities in this ...
Borrel G, Adam PS, Gribaldo S.
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Wood-Ljungdahl pathway encoding anaerobes facilitate low-cost primary production in hypersaline sediments at Great Salt Lake, Utah. [PDF]
FEMS Microbiol EcolLittle is known of primary production in dark hypersaline ecosystems despite the prevalence of such environments on Earth today and throughout its geologic history.
Shoemaker A +10 more
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Acetogenesis and the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway of CO(2) fixation. [PDF]
Biochim Biophys Acta, 2008 Ragsdale SW, Pierce E.
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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 Fast AG, Papoutsakis ET.
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