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    The WoodLjungdahl pathway is a set of biochemical reactions used by some bacteria. It is also known as the reductive acetyl-coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) pathway...
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    the past decade. The WoodLjungdahl pathway consists of two different reactions that break down carbon dioxide. The first pathway involves CODH converting...
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  • two main discoveries of his career: the acetyl-CoA pathway, now known as the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway, and the degradation of plant lignocellulose by bacteria...
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    concentrations of H2S. The reductive acetyl CoA pathway (CoA) pathway, also known as the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway uses CO2 as electron acceptor and carbon source...
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  • Reduction of CO2 to acetate by anaerobic bacteria occurs via the WoodLjungdahl pathway and requires an electron source (e.g., H2, CO, formate, etc.). Some...
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    protein methyltransferase (MeTr) that catalyses a key step in the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway of carbon dioxide fixation. Dihydropteroate synthase (EC 2.5.1.15)...
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    "anaerobic, CO2-fixing, H2-dependent with a WoodLjungdahl pathway (the reductive acetyl-coenzyme A pathway), N2-fixing and thermophilic. LUCA's biochemistry...
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    the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway, which is a pathway by which some organisms utilize carbon dioxide as their source of organic compounds. In this pathway, methylcobalamin...
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    life; their functions imply that the LUCA was anaerobic with the WoodLjungdahl pathway, deriving energy by chemiosmosis, and maintaining its hereditary...
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  • through the reductive acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) pathway (also known as the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway). These genuine acetogens are also known as "homoacetogens"...
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