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Genome-Scale Comparison And Constraint-Based Metabolic Reconstruction Of The Facilitative Anaerobic Fe(Iii)-Reducer Rhodoferax Ferrireducens, Derek Lovley, Carla Risso, Jun Sun, Kai Zhuang, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, Robert Deboy, Wael Ismail, Susmita Shrivastava, Heather Huot, Sagar Kothari, Sean Daughtry, Olivia Bui, Christophe Schilling, Barbara Methѐ
Genome-Scale Comparison And Constraint-Based Metabolic Reconstruction Of The Facilitative Anaerobic Fe(Iii)-Reducer Rhodoferax Ferrireducens, Derek Lovley, Carla Risso, Jun Sun, Kai Zhuang, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, Robert Deboy, Wael Ismail, Susmita Shrivastava, Heather Huot, Sagar Kothari, Sean Daughtry, Olivia Bui, Christophe Schilling, Barbara Methѐ
Carla Risso
Background Rhodoferax ferrireducens is a metabolically versatile, Fe(III)-reducing, subsurface microorganism that is likely to play an important role in the carbon and metal cycles in the subsurface. It also has the unique ability to convert sugars to electricity, oxidizing the sugars to carbon dioxide with quantitative electron transfer to graphite electrodes in microbial fuel cells. In order to expand our limited knowledge about R. ferrireducens, the complete genome sequence of this organism was further annotated and then the physiology of R. ferrireducens was investigated with a constraint-based, genome-scale in silico metabolic model and laboratory studies. Results The iterative modeling and …