... lengths, ranging from maltotriose to maltoheptaose. No maltose was detected, either in thesupernatant or in the cell extracts, following incuba-tion with glucose. Maltose was not detected in cellextracts ... medium of cells degrading cel-lulose. In addition, we showed that maltotriose plays akey role in MD metabolism in F. succinogenes. Finally,the two main findings in this work are the detection ofunusual ... shift to acetate pro-duction could be explained by a need for ATP produc-tion to maintain cell survival.From the results obtained above, there are two stri-king points concerning MD chain lengths,...