Maughan Q, Miller S L
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0506, USA.
Orig Life Evol Biosph. 1999 Aug;29(4):355-60. doi: 10.1023/a:1006534305943.
The reported reduction of alpha-ketoglutarate and ammonia by formate is much slower than described (Morowitz et al., 1995). The formate reduction if any is small under these conditions. Glutamate is produced from a reduction by a second molecule of alpha-ketoglutarate involving an oxidative decarboxylation.