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Acetogenesis is a process through which acetate is produced by anaerobic bacteria from a variety of energy (for example, hydrogen) and carbon (for example, carbon dioxide) sources. The different bacterial species that are capable of acetogenesis are collectively termed acetogens. Acetate, or ethanoate, is the anion of a salt or ester of acetic acid. ... An anaerobic organism or anaerobe is any organism that does not require oxygen. ...
OH + 2 CO The energy released is about 180 kJ per mol, which is conserved in regenerating two ATP from ADP per glucose.
Anaerobic bacteria and archaea use these and many other fermentative pathways, e.g., propionic acid fermentation, butyric acid fermentation, solvent fermentation, mixed acid fermentation, butanediol fermentation, Stickland fermentation, acetogenesis or methanogenesis.
Some anaerobic bacteria produce toxins (e.g., tetanus or botulinum toxins) that are highly dangerous to higher organisms, including humans.
Assessment of reductive acetogenesis with indigenous ruminal bacterium populations and Acetitomaculum ruminis.
Impact of oxygen on metabolic fluxes and in situ rates of reductive acetogenesis in the hindgut of the wood-feeding termite Reticulitermes flavipes, determined by microinjection of radiotracers.
Acetogenesis from CO in the human colonic ecosystem, p.
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