A team of scientists led by Donald Bryant, a professor of biotechnology at Penn State, have overthrown a 44-year-old belief regarding how certain bacteria produce energy and cell material. It was previously thought that these cyanobacteria have an incomplete version of the KREBS cycle, and lack the ability to produce a certain compound due to the absence of a certain enzyme. In reality, it has been discovered that they do produce the compound (succinyl-coenzyme A) using an atypical combination of enzymes. These findings could further advance the effort to find new means of creating efficient biofuels.
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