Article
Growth of Methanosarcina barkeri (Fusaro) under nonmethanogenic conditions by the fermentation of pyruvate to acetate: ATP synthesis via the mechanism of substrate level phosphorylation.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Apr 1995
Bock A K, Schönheit P
Abstract excerpt
A mutant of Methanosarcina barkeri (Fusaro) is able to grow on pyruvate as the sole carbon and energy source. During growth, pyruvate is converted to CH4 and CO2, and about 1.5 mol of ATP per mol of CH4 is formed (A.-K. Bock, A. Prieger-Kraft, and P. Schönheit, Arch. Microbiol. 161:33-46, 1994). The pyruvate-utilizing mutant of M. barkeri could also grow on pyruvate when methanogenesis was completely inhibited by...
Topics
- Acetates
- Acetic Acid
- Adenosine Triphosphate
- Alkanesulfonic Acids
- Arsenates
- Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide
- Fermentation
- Methane
- Methanosarcina barkeri
- Mutation
- Phosphorylation