Can someone please help me understand the following statement from
Raven et al. Biology 8th edition (p. 153) on cyclic
photophosporylation in sulfur bacteria:
"The hydrogen atoms extracted from H2S are used as a source of
protons for driving ATP pumps and are not available to join carbon.
Bacteria that are restricted to this process therefore must scavenge
hydrogens from other sources, an inefficient undertaking."
My old edition of Gottschalk Bacterial Metabolism states that
"reduced sulfur compounds are preferentially used as H-donors by
[phototrophic bacteria]" for CO2 reduction.
And Brock's Microbiology, (2006, p. 542) states that "Reducing power
(NADH) [....] for purple sulfur bacteria [...] usually comes from H2S [...]."
Am I misreading Raven et al. somehow, or is their explanation in
contradiction to the Microbiology textbooks?
Thanks for any clarification you can provide,
Catharina
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