A joint bacterial effort to produce vitamin B12
31 July 2024Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02474-7
Vitamin B12 consists of two molecular components and has been thought to be synthesized only in full by certain bacteria. It emerges that two bacterial strains that each exclusively produce one building block can complement each other to enable joint synthesis of the vitamin.