reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle

Also known as GO:0019643, reductive TCA cycle, reductive Kreb's cycle, reductive citric acid pathway, reductive carboxylic acid cycle, reductive carboxylate cycle, Reverse Krebs cycle

pathway leading to the fixation of two molecules of CO2 and the production of one molecule of acetyl-CoA; essentially the oxidative TCA cycle running in reverse. Acetyl-CoA is reductively carboxylated to pyruvate, from which all other central metab