Affiliation:
1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Abstract
Acetogenic bacteria grow by making acetate from CO
2
and are considered the first life forms on Earth since they couple CO
2
reduction to the conservation of energy. How this is achieved has been an enigma ever since.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology