The synthesis of alpha-ketoglutarate from succinate and carbon dioxide by a subcellular preparation of a photosynthetic bacterium.
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 54 (4) , 1212-1218
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.54.4.1212
Abstract
The reductive synthesis of [alpha]-ketoglutarate from succinyl coenzyme-A and CO2, in a reaction requiring reduced ferre-doxin, has been demonstrated in a cell-free preparation of the photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobium thiosulfatophilum. This preparation also catalyzes the conversion of [alpha]-ketoglutarate to glutamate. It is proposed that this mechanism for the synthesis of glutamate is involved in carbon assimilation by photosynthetic bacteria.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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