Bio-based succinate is receiving increasing attention as a potential intermediary feedstock
for replacing a large petrochemical-based bulk chemical market. The prospective economical …

The transfer of nutrients between cells, or cross-feeding, is a ubiquitous feature of microbial
communities with emergent properties that influence our health and orchestrate global …

Microbial interactions, including mutualistic nutrient exchange (cross-feeding), underpin the
flow of energy and materials in all ecosystems. Metabolic exchanges are difficult to assess …

The Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle (Calvin cycle) catalyzes virtually all primary productivity
on Earth and is the major sink for atmospheric CO 2 . A less appreciated function of CO 2 …

Actinobacillus succinogenes is a promising candidate for industrial succinate production.
However, in addition to producing succinate, it also produces formate and acetate. To …

Background Succinate is produced petrochemically from maleic anhydride to satisfy a small
specialty chemical market. If succinate could be produced fermentatively at a price …

Purple nonsulfur bacteria grow photoheterotrophically by using light for energy and organic
compounds for carbon and electrons. Disrupting the activity of the CO 2 -fixing Calvin cycle …

Solar energy can be converted into chemical energy in the form of hydrogen gas using oxygenic
and anoxygenic photosynthetic microbes. Laboratory-scale measurements suggest that …

Chemically defined media allow for a variety of metabolic studies that are not possible with
undefined media. A defined medium, AM3, was created to expand the experimental …

The metabolism of a bacterial cell stretches beyond its boundaries, often connecting with
the metabolism of other cells to form extended metabolic networks that stretch across …