Figure 1
From: Characterizing metabolic interactions in a clostridial co-culture for consolidated bioprocessing
The scheme of the clostridial co-culture fermentation on cellulose. C. cellulolyticum adheres to the cellulose fibers using cellulosome and hydrolyzes cellulose to cellobiose (cellb) and glucose (glc), which can be metabolized by C. cellulolyticum and C. acetobutylicum in the coculture. The produced pyruvate (pyr) can also be fermented as a carbon source by C. acetobutylicum.