Autotrophic carbon fixation in archaea

@article{Berg2010AutotrophicCF,
  title={Autotrophic carbon fixation in archaea},
  author={Ivan A. Berg and Daniel Kockelkorn and W. Hugo Ramos-Vera and Rafael F. Say and Jan Zarzycki and Michael H{\"u}gler and Birgit E. Alber and Georg Fuchs},
  journal={Nature Reviews Microbiology},
  year={2010},
  volume={8},
  pages={447-460}
}
The acquisition of cellular carbon from inorganic carbon is a prerequisite for life and marked the transition from the inorganic to the organic world. Recent theories of the origins of life assume that chemoevolution took place in a hot volcanic flow setting through a transition metal-catalysed, autocatalytic carbon fixation cycle. Many archaea live in volcanic habitats under such constraints, in high temperatures with only inorganic substances and often under anoxic conditions. In this Review… 
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