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Selected Publications

1.  Schneider, K., M. Asao, M. S. Carter, B. E. Alber. 2012 Rhodobacter sphaeroides uses a reductive route via propionyl coenzyme A to assimilate 3-hydroxypropionate. J. Bact. 194(2): 225. 22056933 

2.  Alber, B. E. 2011. Biotechnological potential of the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 89(1): 17-25. 20882276  

3.  Laguna R, F. R. Tabita, and B. E. Alber. 2011. Acetate-dependent photoheterotrophic growth and the the differential requirement for the Calvin-Benson-Bassham reductive pentose phosphate cycle in Rhobobacter sphaeroides and Rhodopseudomonas palustris. Arch. Microbiol. 193(2): 151-154. 21104179

4.  Berg, I. A., D. Kockelkorn, W.H. Ramos-Vera, R. F. Say, J. Zarzycki, M Hugler, B. E. Alber, G. Fuchs. 2010. Autotrophic carbon fixation in archaea. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 8(6): 447-460. 20453874

5.  Erb, T. J., L. Frerichs-Revermann, G. Fuchs, and B. E. Alber. 2010. The apparent malate synthase activity of Rhodobacter sphaeroides is due to two paralogous enzymes, (3S)-malyl-CoA/beta-methylmalyl-CoA lyase and (3S)-malyl_CoA thioesterase. J. Bacteriol. 192(5): 1249-1258. 20047909

6.  Erb, T. J., G. Fuchs, and B. E. Alber. 2009. (2S)-Methylsuccinyl-CoA dehydrogenase closes the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway for acetyl-CoA assimilation. Mol. Microbiol. 73:992-1008. 19703103

7.  Erb, T. J., J. Retey, G. Fuchs, and B. E. Alber. 2008. Ethylmalonyl-CoA mutase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides defines a new subclade of coenzyme B12-dependent acyl-CoA mutases. J. Biol. Chem. 283:32283-32293. 18819910

8.  Erb, T. J., I. A. Berg, V. Brecht, M. Muller, G. Fuchs, and B. E. Alber. 2007. Synthesis of C5-dicarboxylic acids from C2-units involving crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase: the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104:10631-10636. 17548827

9.  Alber, B. E., R. Spanheimer, C. Ebenau-Jehle, and G. Fuchs. 2006. Study of an alternate glyoxylate cycle for acetate assimilation by Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Mol. Microbiol. 61:297-309. 16856937

10.  Kornberg, H. L. and J. Lascelles. 1960. The formation of isocitratase by the Athiorhodaceae. J. Gen. Microbiol. 23:511-517. 13753189

11.  Kornberg, H. L. and H. A. Krebs. 1957. Synthesis of cell constituents from C2-units by a modified tricarboxylic acid cycle. Nature     179:988-991. 13430766

12.  Muller, F. M. 1933. On the metabolism of the purple sulphur bacteria in organic media. Arch. Microbiol. 4:131-166.