Thermodynamic modelling of synthetic communities predicts minimum free energy requirements for sulfate reduction and methanogenesis.

ABSTRACT: Microbial communities are complex dynamical systems harbouring many species interacting together to implement higher-level functions. Among these higher-level functions, conversion of organic matter into simpler building blocks by microbial communities underpins biogeochemical cycles and animal and plant nutrition, and is exploited in biotechnology. A prerequisite to predicting the dynamics and stability of community-mediated metabolic conversions is the development and calibration of appropriate mathematical models. Here, we present a generic, extendable thermodynamic model for community dynamics and calibrate a key parameter of this thermodynamic model, the minimum energy requirement associated with growth-supporting metabolic pathways, using experimental population dynamics data from sy

SUBMITTER: Delattre H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7276542 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature