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Harland G. Wood

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CO2 fixation Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States 
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Biochemistry
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(1907 - 1991)
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In 1931 Wood was accepted as a graduate student in bacteriology at Iowa State University at Ames by C. H. Werkman, who was starting to investigate the chemistry of bacterial fermentations. It was there that Harland made his stunning discovery of CO2 fixation, which up to that time was known to occur only in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic autotrophs. This idea was so controversial that for some time Professor Werkman doubted the validity of Harland's findings.

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Chester Hamlin Werkman grad student 1934 Iowa State
 (The physiology of the propionic acid bacteria)
William Harold Peterson post-doc 1935-1936 UW Madison

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Lars G. Ljungdahl grad student Case Western Medical School
Paul Berg grad student 1952 Case Western
Harry Rudney grad student 1952 Western Reserve University
Jerard Hurwitz grad student 1953 Western Reserve University
Stephen W. Ragsdale post-doc 1983-1987 Case Western

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WOOD HG. (2010) The fixation of carbon dioxide and the inter-relationships of the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Physiological Reviews. 26: 198-246
Swick RW, Wood HG. (2006) THE ROLE OF TRANSCARBOXYLATION IN PROPIONIC ACID FERMENTATION. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 46: 28-41
WOOD HG, LEAVER FW. (2003) CO2 turnover in the fermentation of 3,4,5 and 6 carbon compounds by the propionic acid bacteria. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. 12: 207-22
LEAVER FW, WOOD HG. (2003) Evidence from fermentation of labeled substrates which is inconsistent with present concepts of the propionic acid fermentation. Journal of Cellular Physiology. Supplement. 41: 225-40
STJERNHOLM R, WOOD HG. (2000) Differential degradation of D-and L-glycerol-1-C14 by Aerobacter aerogenes. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 78: 28-32
Werkman CH, Wood HG. (2000) Heterotrophic assimilation of carbon dioxide. 1942. Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology. 74: 3-50
Thornton CG, Kumar GK, Haase FC, et al. (1993) Primary structure of the monomer of the 12S subunit of transcarboxylase as deduced from DNA and characterization of the product expressed in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 175: 5301-8
Thornton CG, Kumar GK, Shenoy BC, et al. (1993) Primary structure of the 5 S subunit of transcarboxylase as deduced from the genomic DNA sequence. Febs Letters. 330: 191-6
Ragsdale SW, Wood HG. (1991) Enzymology of the acetyl-coa pathway of CO2 fixation Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 26: 261-300
Wood HG. (1991) Life with CO or CO2 and H2 as a source of carbon and energy. Faseb Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology. 5: 156-63
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