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missing steps of the autotrophic 3-hydroxypropionate CO 2 fixation
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anaerobic habitats. In: Zehnder AJB (ed) Biology of anaerobic
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sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough.
Nature Biotechnol 22:554–559
Hooper AB, Vannelli T, Bergmann DJ, Arciero DM (1997) Enzymology of the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite by bacteria. Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek 70:59–67
Hu Y, Holden JF (2006) Citric acid cycle in the hyperthermophilic
archaeon Pyrobaculum islandicum grown autotrophically, heterotrophically, and mixotrophically with acetate. J Bacteriol
188:4350–4355
Le Gall J, Xavier AV (1996) Anaerobe response to oxygen:
The sulfate-reducing bacteria. Anaerobe 2:1–9
Lidstrom ME (1991) Aerobic Methylotrophic bacteria. In: Balows A,
Tru ¨per HG, Dworkin M, Harder W, Schleifer KH (eds) The
prokaryotes. Springer, New York, pp 431–445
Lobo SAL, Melo AMP, Carita JN, Teixeira M, Saraiva LM (2007) The
anaerobe Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 grows at nearly
atmospheric oxygen levels. FEBS Letters 581:433–436
Madigan MT, Martinko JM, Stahl DA, Clark DP (2010) Brock: biology
of microorganisms, 13th edn. Pearson Benjamin-Cummings, SanFrancisco
Matias PM, Pereira IAC, Soares CM, Carrondo MA (2005) Sulphate
respiration from hydrogen in Desulfovibrio bacteria: a structure
biology overview. Progr Biophys Mol Biol 89:292–329
Milucka J et al (2012) Zero-valent sulphur is a key intermediate in
marine methane oxidation. Nature 491:541–546
Mueller-Cajar O, Badger MR (2007) New roads lead to Rubisco in
archaebacteria. Bioessays 29:722–724
Muller V (2003) Energy conservation in acetogenic bacteria. Appl
Environm Microbiol 69:6345–6353
Muller V, Blaut M, Heise R, Winner C, Gottschalk G (2008) Sodium
bioenergetics in methanogens and acetogens. FEMS Microbiol
Letters 87:373–376
Riebesell U (2000) Carbon fix for diatom. Nature 407:959–960
Rohwerder T, Sand W (2003) The sulfane sulfur of persulfides is the
actual substrate of the sulfur-oxidizing enzymes from Acidithiobacillus and Acidiphilium spp. Microbiology 149:1699–1709
Santana M (2008) Presence and expression of terminal oxygen
reductases in strictly anaerobic sulfate reducing bacteria isolated
from salt-marsh sediments. Anaerobe 14:145–156
Stams ASH, Plugge C (2009) Electron transfer in syntrophic communities
of anaerobic bacteria and archaea. Nat Rev Microbiol 7:568–577
Stanier RV, Ingraham JL, Wheelis ML, Painter PR (1986) The microbial world. Prentice-Hall, Englewood cliffs
Valde ´s J, Pedroso I, Quatrini R, Dodson RJ, Tettelin H, Blake R, Eisen
JA, Hokmes DS (2008) Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans metabolism:
from genome to industrial applications. BMC genomics 9:597–621
Voordouw G (1995) The genus Desulfovibrio: the centennial. Appl
Environ Microbiol 61:2813–2819
Walter JM, Greenfield D, Bustamante C, Liphardt J (2007) Lightpowering Escherichia coli with proteorhodopsin. Proc Nat Acad
Sci 104:2408–2412
Ward N, Staley JT, Fuerst JA, Giovannovi S, Schlesner H, Stackbrandt
E (2006) The order Planctomycetales, including the genera
Planctomyces, Pirellula, Gemmata and Isosphaera and the
Candidatus genera “Brocadia, Kuenenia and Scalindua”. In:
Dworkin M, Falkow S, Rosenberg E, Schleifer K, Stackebrandt E
(eds) The prokaryotes. Springer, New York, pp 757–793
Yurkov VV, Beatty JT (1998) Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 62:695–724
Zarzycki J, Brecht V, Mu ¨ller M, Fuchs G (2009) Identifying the
missing steps of the autotrophic 3-hydroxypropionate CO 2 fixation
cycle in Chloroflexus aurantiacus. PNAS 106:21317–21322
Zehnder AJB, Stumm W (1988) Geochemistry and biogeochemistry of
anaerobic habitats. In: Zehnder AJB (ed) Biology of anaerobic
microorganisms. Wiley, New York, pp 1–38
3 Structure and Functions of Microorganisms: Production and Use of Material and Energy
71