There is an immediate need to drastically reduce the emissions associated with global fossil
fuel consumption in order to limit climate change. However, carbon-based materials …

1.1. Research on Catalytic Reactions Involving CO and CO2: Relationship to Energy, the
Environment, Biogeochemistry, Toxicology, Health, and Technology The major …

Conceptually, the simplest way to synthesize an organic molecule is to construct it one
carbon at a time. The Wood–Ljungdahl pathway of CO2 fixation involves this type of …

Life is mostly composed of the elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and
phosphorus. Although these six elements make up nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids and …

Acetogens utilize the acetyl‐CoA Wood‐Ljungdahl pathway as a terminal electron‐
accepting, energy‐conserving, CO2‐fixing process. The decades of research to resolve the …

Anaerobic bacterial gas fermentation gains broad interest in various scientific, social, and
industrial fields. This microbial process is carried out by a specific group of bacterial strains …

This review focuses on how microbes live on CO as a sole source of carbon and energy and
with CO by generating carbon monoxide as a metabolic intermediate. The use of CO is a …

We will get to acetogens shortly. Before that, I must note that it was never my intent to deliver
the introductory chapter for this book. That was Harland's job, and as editor of this book, I …

This article reviews an enzyme with two important catalytic activities, carbon monoxide
dehydrogenase (CODH)(reaction 1) and acetyl-CoA synthase (ACS)(reaction 2). These …

Homoacetogenic bacteria are strictly anaerobic microorganisms that catalyze the formation
of acetate from C 1 units in their energy metabolism. Most of these organisms are able to …