Another reaction of fluoroacetate, in nematode parasites, in which it appears to inhibit oxidation within the Krebs tricarboxylic acid cycle, is reported here.

When Krebs proposed the TCA cycle in 1937, he thought that citrate ... knowledge and do not emphasize how the lipid and amino acid degradation pathways converge on the TCA cycle.

“Sugars and amino acids have already been cataloged to form in laboratory interstellar ices and these results expand these biomolecules to include bioenergetic material in the Krebs ...