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Title: Metabolic Reconstruction and Modeling Microbial Electrosynthesis

Abstract

Microbial electrosynthesis is a renewable energy and chemical production platform that relies on microbial cells to capture electrons from a cathode and fix carbon. Yet despite the promise of this technology, the metabolic capacity of the microbes that inhabit the electrode surface and catalyze electron transfer in these systems remains largely unknown. Here, we assembled thirteen draft genomes from a microbial electrosynthesis system producing primarily acetate from carbon dioxide, and their transcriptional activity was mapped to genomes from cells on the electrode surface and in the supernatant. This allowed us to create a metabolic model of the predominant community members belonging to Acetobacterium, Sulfurospirillum, and Desulfovibrio. According to the model, the Acetobacterium was the primary carbon fixer, and a keystone member of the community. Transcripts of soluble hydrogenases and ferredoxins from Acetobacterium and hydrogenases, formate dehydrogenase, and cytochromes of Desulfovibrio were found in high abundance near the electrode surface. Cytochrome c oxidases of facultative members of the community were highly expressed in the supernatant despite completely sealed reactors and constant flushing with anaerobic gases. The resulting molecular discoveries and metabolic modeling now serve as a foundation for future examination and development of electrosynthetic microbial communities.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4];  [3];  [3];  [5];  [6];  [2]
  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Biosciences Division; Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of Surgery
  2. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States). Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Computing Environment and Life Sciences
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Biosciences Division
  5. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Biosciences Division; Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, Dept. of Surgery
  6. Medical Univ. of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (United States). Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Science Center
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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1393156
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; AR0000089
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; applied microbiology; metagenomics

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Marshall, Christopher W., Ross, Daniel E., Handley, Kim M., Weisenhorn, Pamela B., Edirisinghe, Janaka N., Henry, Christopher S., Gilbert, Jack A., May, Harold D., and Norman, R. Sean. Metabolic Reconstruction and Modeling Microbial Electrosynthesis. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-08877-z.
Marshall, Christopher W., Ross, Daniel E., Handley, Kim M., Weisenhorn, Pamela B., Edirisinghe, Janaka N., Henry, Christopher S., Gilbert, Jack A., May, Harold D., & Norman, R. Sean. Metabolic Reconstruction and Modeling Microbial Electrosynthesis. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08877-z
Marshall, Christopher W., Ross, Daniel E., Handley, Kim M., Weisenhorn, Pamela B., Edirisinghe, Janaka N., Henry, Christopher S., Gilbert, Jack A., May, Harold D., and Norman, R. Sean. Mon . "Metabolic Reconstruction and Modeling Microbial Electrosynthesis". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08877-z. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1393156.
@article{osti_1393156,
title = {Metabolic Reconstruction and Modeling Microbial Electrosynthesis},
author = {Marshall, Christopher W. and Ross, Daniel E. and Handley, Kim M. and Weisenhorn, Pamela B. and Edirisinghe, Janaka N. and Henry, Christopher S. and Gilbert, Jack A. and May, Harold D. and Norman, R. Sean},
abstractNote = {Microbial electrosynthesis is a renewable energy and chemical production platform that relies on microbial cells to capture electrons from a cathode and fix carbon. Yet despite the promise of this technology, the metabolic capacity of the microbes that inhabit the electrode surface and catalyze electron transfer in these systems remains largely unknown. Here, we assembled thirteen draft genomes from a microbial electrosynthesis system producing primarily acetate from carbon dioxide, and their transcriptional activity was mapped to genomes from cells on the electrode surface and in the supernatant. This allowed us to create a metabolic model of the predominant community members belonging to Acetobacterium, Sulfurospirillum, and Desulfovibrio. According to the model, the Acetobacterium was the primary carbon fixer, and a keystone member of the community. Transcripts of soluble hydrogenases and ferredoxins from Acetobacterium and hydrogenases, formate dehydrogenase, and cytochromes of Desulfovibrio were found in high abundance near the electrode surface. Cytochrome c oxidases of facultative members of the community were highly expressed in the supernatant despite completely sealed reactors and constant flushing with anaerobic gases. The resulting molecular discoveries and metabolic modeling now serve as a foundation for future examination and development of electrosynthetic microbial communities.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-017-08877-z},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 21 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Aug 21 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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Energy Efficiency and Productivity Enhancement of Microbial Electrosynthesis of Acetate
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From an extremophilic community to an electroautotrophic production strain: identifying a novel Knallgas bacterium as cathodic biofilm biocatalyst
journal, January 2020

  • Reiner, Johannes Eberhard; Geiger, Katharina; Hackbarth, Max
  • The ISME Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-0595-5

Experimental evaluation of the influential factors of acetate production driven by a DC power system via CO2 reduction through microbial electrosynthesis
journal, August 2019

  • Song, Tian-shun; Wang, Guangrong; Wang, Haoqi
  • Bioresources and Bioprocessing, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1186/s40643-019-0265-5

[NiFe]-hydrogenases are constitutively expressed in an enriched Methanobacterium sp. population during electromethanogenesis
journal, April 2019


An Acetobacterium strain isolated with metallic iron as electron donor enhances iron corrosion by a similar mechanism as Sporomusa sphaeroides
journal, November 2018

  • Philips, Jo; Monballyu, Eva; Georg, Steffen
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Vol. 95, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy222

Continuous n-valerate formation from propionate and methanol in an anaerobic chain elongation open-culture bioreactor
journal, May 2019

  • de Smit, Sanne M.; de Leeuw, Kasper D.; Buisman, Cees J. N.
  • Biotechnology for Biofuels, Vol. 12, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1186/s13068-019-1468-x

Mo2C-induced hydrogen production enhances microbial electrosynthesis of acetate from CO2 reduction
journal, April 2019


Continuous n-valerate formation from propionate and methanol in an anaerobic chain elongation open-culture bioreactor
journal, May 2019

  • de Smit, Sanne M.; de Leeuw, Kasper D.; Buisman, Cees J. N.
  • Biotechnology for Biofuels, Vol. 12, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1186/s13068-019-1468-x

Critical Biofilm Growth throughout Unmodified Carbon Felts Allows Continuous Bioelectrochemical Chain Elongation from CO2 up to Caproate at High Current Density
journal, March 2018

  • Jourdin, Ludovic; Raes, Sanne M. T.; Buisman, Cees J. N.
  • Frontiers in Energy Research, Vol. 6
  • DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2018.00007