“…Consistent with its facultative anaerobic nature, P. freudenreichii has a structurally complete TCA cycle 45,48−50, which may justify the observed oxidative phenotypes with free oxygen and the ability of the strain to grow under aerobic conditions [51][52][53][54] . Genome annotation data suggest that strain DSM20271 contains all the enzymes of the electron transport chain essential for both anaerobic and aerobic metabolism, including NADH dehydrogenase/complex I (NDH-1) (NADH: ubiquinone reductase), membraneanchored fumarate reductase/succinate dehydrogenase (SdhA, SdhB, SdhC), cytochrome bd complex (cydA and cydB), cydC subunit, which is required for the synthesis of the functional form of cytochrome bd, ATPase (atpA, atpB, atpC, atpD, atpE, atpF, atpG, atpH), and all genes indispensable for biosynthesis of heme, an essential cofactor for the cytochrome bd complex.…”