uses a reductive citric acid cycle and is found in anaerobic or microaerophilic bacteria and archaea. A third autotrophic pathway (Wood–Ljungdahl pathway) uses a reductive acetyl-CoA pathway and ...

"Acetyl-CoA carboxylase can drive the balance between storing lipids versus breaking down those lipids and feeding them into the citric acid cycle for energy," said Thaxton. "If ACC is flipped 'on ...