In 1991 the acidophilic bacteria, Acidobacterium capsulatum was cultured from acid mine drainage in Japan. This microorganism is of interest because there is little known about its metabolic capabilities. Ward et al. (2009) showed in their annotated genome of A. capuslatum the absence of a key enzyme, aldolase, involved in the breakdown of glucose in glycolysis. If this is true, then glucose has to be shunted between use for energy production and...