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The sulfate-reducing culture N47 can grow with naphthalene and has a complete tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA) and Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (WLP) while other organisms have only either of them. Here, we wanted to elucidate why N47 has two complete pathways potentially able to oxidize acetyl-CoA. Enzyme activities were measured in cell extracts indicating a fully functional rTCA and WLP. To elucidate the carbon flux through the pathways, cells were grown with  13 C-labeled naphthalene or  13 C-bicarbonate buffer. Amino acids and fatty acids were analysed for position specific  13 C-incorporation with GC-MS, which indicated that in catabolism, acetyl-CoA from naphthalene was fully oxidized to CO 2  via the WLP. Acetyl-CoA for anabolism of amino acids, fatty acids and carbohydrates was surprisingly not coming from the substrate naphthalene but is generated  de novo  by CO 2 -fixation, making N47 a chemoorganoauto-trophic microorganism. This indicates that chemoorganoauto-trophy can also occur with complex substrates but probably requires a complete WLP and rTCA in anaerobic microorganisms.

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