User:Raffaele Piscopo/New sandbox

Metabolism
Sulfolobus solfataricus is known to grow chemoorganotrophically, in presence of oxygen, on a variety of organic componds such as sugars, alcohols, amino acids and aromatic compounds like phenol.

It uses a modified Entner-Doudroff pathway for glucose oxidation and the resulting pyruvate molecules can be totally mineralized in TCA cycle.

Molecular oxygen is the only known electron acceptor at the end of the electron tranport chain.

Other than organic molecules, this Archea species can also utilize hydrogen sulfide and elementar sulfur as electron donors and fix CO2, possibly by means of HP/HB cycle , making it also capable of living chemoautotrophycally.

Recent studies have found also the capability of growing, albeit slowly, oxidizing molecular hydrogen.