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Blue-green algae skip a sugar shortcut scientists thought they used
PubMed · 2026-08-05
Scientists found that a common type of blue-green algae doesn't use a sugar-processing shortcut that researchers had assumed it relied on for decades. The discovery corrects the textbook picture of how these ancient photosynthetic microbes fuel themselves.
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Synechocystis, a widely studied cyanobacterium, lacks the Entner-Doudoroff pathway for breaking down glucose.
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This contradicts prior assumptions that cyanobacteria used this pathway as a standard glucose metabolism route.
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The correction affects how scientists model cyanobacterial metabolism for research and biotechnology applications.
