Carbon Dioxide-Fixation in Photosynthetic Green Sulfur Bacteria
- 10 July 1970
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 169 (3941), 186-188
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.169.3941.186
Abstract
The main products of carbon dioxide-fixation in washed suspensions of Chlorobium thiosulfatophilum are a polyglucose, α-ketoglutarate, and α-keto-β-methylvalerate. All of these can be formed by a mechanism involving the reductive carboxylic acid cycle. The reductive pentose phosphate cycle appears to play a quantitatively minor role in carbon dioxide-fixation under these conditions.Keywords
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