Providing new insights on the biphasic lifestyle of the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus through genome-scale metabolic modeling
Fig 6
Prediction of the carbon flux distribution in iCH457 metabolic network.
Graphical representation of the metabolic carbon fluxes during the life cycle of B. bacteriovorus HD100. The numbers below each reaction represent the more probable flux in each phase (GP flux/AP flux) as determined by Monte Carlo sampling analysis. The thick arrows highlight the carbon flux distribution in GP compared with AP. The thin arrows highlight the reactions that are active in AP compared with GP. As the major carbon sources are amino acids, alanine and glutamate come directly from the breakdown of the dipeptides or from the single amino acids. Eritrose 4 phosphate and glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate come from the degradation pathways of serine and threonine.