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Diversity, Ecology, and Isolation of Acetogenic Bacteria

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Acetogenesis

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The characteristic property of homoacetogenic bacteria is their ability to use carbon dioxide as a widespread and easily available electron sink and to reduce it via the carbon monoxide dehydrogenase system to acetate as their typical fermentation product. First note of this activity goes back to Fischer, Lieske, and Winzer (1932) who observed that a sewage sludge sample under an oxygen-free hydrogen atmosphere in the presence of bicarbonate gave rise to the formation of acetic acid. After this, our knowledge on the metabolic versatility of isolated strains of homoacetogenic bacteria has increased considerably, and there is no doubt that homoacetogens are the most versatile physiological group among the anaerobic bacteria we know.

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