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Identification of Early Labelled Products of CO2-Fixation by Hydrogen Bacteria accumulating Poly-β-hydroxybutyric Acid

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THE effect of the reductive pentose phosphate cycle in hydrogen oxidizing bacteria has already been established1,2; the detection of early labelled organic acids3 and of an unknown compound, situated beyond the area of phosphate esters on chromatograms4, led to the assumption that other carbon dioxide fixation reactions might occur under certain conditions.

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HIRSCH, P., GEORGIEV, G. & SCHLEGEL, H. Identification of Early Labelled Products of CO2-Fixation by Hydrogen Bacteria accumulating Poly-β-hydroxybutyric Acid. Nature 197, 313–314 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197313a0

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