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Sp. Nov., a solvent-producing clostridium isolated from an agricultural settling lagoon, and
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Nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:2085–2091
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fixation. Biochim Biophys Acta 1784:1873–1898
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monoxide utilization and butanol production by clostridium carboxidivorans strain P7T.
PLoS One 5:e13033
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Genome sequence of the solvent-producing bacterium clostridium carboxidivorans strain
P7T. J Bacteriol 192:5554–5555
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Clostridium carboxidovorans strain P7T recombinant formate dehydrogenase catalyzes
reduction of CO 2 to formate. Appl Environ Micorobiol 79:741–744
148. Bagramyan K, Trchounian A (2003) Structural and functional features of formate hydrogen
lyase, an enzyme of mixed-acid fermentation from Escherichia coli. Biochem Moscow
68:1159–1170
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Bacterial formate hydrogenlyase complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111:E3948–E3956
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hydrogenlyase: a membrane-bound enzyme capable of fixing carbon dioxide to organic acid.
MicrobiologyOpen 5:721–737
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Moura JJG, Moura I, Maia L (eds) Enzymes for solving humankind’s problems, Springer
Nature Switzerland AG (in press)
153. Schuchmann K, Müller V (2013) Direct and reversible hydrogenation of CO2 to formate by
a bacterial carbon dioxide reductase. Science 342:1382–1385
154. Schuchmann K, Vonck J, Müller V (2016) A bacterial hydrogen-dependent CO 2 reductase
forms filamentous structures. FEBS J 283:1311–1322
155. Kottenhahn P, Schuchmann K, Müller V (2018) Efficient whole cell biocatalyst for
formate-based hydrogen production. Biotechnol Biofuels 11:93
156. Schwarz FM, Schuchmann K, Müller V (2018) Hydrogenation of CO 2 at ambient pressure
catalyzed by a highly active thermostable biocatalyst. Biotechnol Biofuels 11:237
157. Müller V (2019) New horizons in acetogenic conversion of one-carbon substrates and
biological hydrogen storage. Trends Biotechnol 37:1344–1354
158. Schoelmerich MC, Müller V (2019) Energy conservation by a hydrogenase-dependent
chemiosmotic mechanism in an ancient metabolic pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
116:6329–6334
159. Schwarz FM, Müller V (2020) Whole-cell biocatalysis for hydrogen storage and syngas
conversion to formate using a thermophilic acetogen. Biotechnol Biofuels 13:32
160. Bertram PA, Karrasch M, Schmitz RA, Böcher R, Albracht SPJ, Thauer RK (1994)
Formylmethanofuran dehydrogenases from methanogenic Archaea Substrate specificity,
EPR properties and reversible inactivation by cyanide of the molybdenum or tungsten
iron-sulfur proteins. Eur J Biochem 220:477–484
161. Hochheimer A, Hedderich R, Thauer RK (1998) The formylmethanofuran dehydrogenase
isozymes in Methanobacterium wolfeii and Methanobacterium terhmoautotrophicum:
74
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