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Metatranscriptomic and Thermodynamic Insights into Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Production Using an Anaerobic Microbiome.

Matthew J Scarborough, Christopher E Lawson, Joshua J Hamilton, Timothy J Donohue, Daniel R Noguera

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42citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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42 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew J ScarboroughThe Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Christopher E LawsonDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Joshua J HamiltonDepartment of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Timothy J DonohueThe Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8738-2467
Daniel R NogueraThe Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0372-3063
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomanufacturing from renewable feedstocks can offset fossil fuel-based chemical production. One potential biomanufacturing strategy is production of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA) from organic feedstocks using either pure cultures or microbiomes. While the set of microbes in a microbiome can often metabolize organic materials of greater diversity than a single species can and while the role of specific species may be known, knowledge of the carbon and energy flow within and between organisms in MCFA-producing microbiomes is only now starting to emerge. Here, we integrated metagenomic, metatranscriptomic, and thermodynamic analyses to predict and characterize the metabolic network of an anaerobic microbiome producing MCFA from organic matter derived from lignocellulosic ethanol fermentation conversion residue. A total of 37 high-quality (>80% complete, <10% contamination) metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered from the microbiome, and metabolic reconstruction of the 10 most abundant MAGs was performed. Metabolic reconstruction combined with metatranscriptomic analysis predicted that organisms affiliated with

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anaerobic digestionbiorefiningcarboxylate platformhexanoic acidmedium-chain fatty acidsmetagenomicsmetatranscriptomicsoctanoic acid

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PMID30505946
PMCPMC6247018
OpenAlexW2949304343

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