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The diversity of microbial metabolism has significantly expanded in the last years by the discovery of several novel central metabolic pathways in different groups of prokaryotes. These novel pathways use a number of unusual intermediates, whose participation in the central metabolism was not anticipated. This fact reflects a bias in our choice of model organisms rather than a limited importance of discovered pathways/compounds in natural ecosystems. Metabolisms that we regard as unusual may actually represent mainstream processes in natural ecosystems.
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Ivan A. Berg Jahrgang 1975. 1993–1997 Biologiestudium mit Schwerpunkt Mikrobiologie an der Moskauer Staatlichen Lomonossov-Universität, Russland, dort 2000 Promotion und 2000–2006 Wissenschaftler. 2007–2011 Postdoc an der Universität Freiburg. 2011 Habilitation, seit 2011 Privatdozent und Heisenbergstipendiat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft an der Universität Freiburg.
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Berg, I.A. Un-/Gewöhnliche Reaktionen im mikrobiellen Metabolismus. Biospektrum 22, 348–351 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-016-0694-z
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