A New Method of Genome-Scale Metabolic Model Validation for Biogeochemical Application

• Main Author: Shapiro, Benjamin
• Other Authors: Jin, Qusheng
• Language: en_US
• Published: University of Oregon 2017
• Subjects: Biogeochemical reaction modeling; Flux balance analysis; Genome-scale; Geobacter; Methanosarcina; Shewanella
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22679

We propose a new method to integrate genome-scale metabolic models into biogeochemical reaction modeling. This method predicts rates of microbial metabolisms by combining flux balance analysis (FBA) with microbial rate laws. We applied this new hybrid method to methanogenesis by Methanosarcina barkeri. Our results show that the new method predicts well the progress of acetoclastic, methanol, and diauxic metabolism by M. barkeri. The hybrid method represents an improvement over dynamic FBA. We validated genome-scale metabolic models of Methanosarcina barkeri, Methanosarcina acetivorans, Geobacter metallireducens, Shewanella oneidensis, Shewanella putrefaciens and Shewanella sp. MR4 for application to biogeochemical modeling. FBA was used to predict the response of cell metabolism, and ATP and biomass yield. Our analysis provides improvements to these models for the purpose of applications to natural environments. === 2019-07-28