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SUBMITTER: Huang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3393501 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of bacteriology 20120511 14
Moorella thermoacetica ferments glucose to three acetic acids. In the oxidative part of the fermentation, the hexose is converted to 2 acetic acids and 2 CO(2) molecules with the formation of 2 NADH and 2 reduced ferredoxin (Fd(red)(2-)) molecules. In the reductive part, 2 CO(2) molecules are reduced to acetic acid, consuming the 8 reducing equivalents generated in the oxidative part. An open question is how the two parts are electronically connected, since two of the four oxidoreductases involv ...[more]