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M. xanthus is a chemoorganoheterotroph. It obtains energy from oxidation-reduction reactions and obtains both electrons and carbon from organic molecules. These bacteria do produce and consume glycogen, a branched glucose polymer, but cannot fully convert glucose to pyruvate though the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway. The flux through the pathway is incomplete, even though homologs of each enzyme

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