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  • Microbial ecology and evolution
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Systems biology

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  • Microbial communities drive global biogeochemical cycles through metabolic activities.
  • Community metabolism is influenced by gene expression, ecological interactions, and environmental factors.
  • Predicting metabolite dynamics from microbial genomes in wild communities is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate that microbial community metabolite dynamics are predictable from the genes possessed by each member.
  • To establish a link between gene content and metabolite dynamics for denitrification processes.
  • To enable prediction of metabolite dynamics from metagenomic data.

Main Methods:

  • Linear regression analysis to map gene content to metabolite dynamics in diverse bacterial communities.
  • Consumer-resource modeling using single-strain phenotypes to predict community metabolite dynamics.
  • Analysis focused on the process of denitrification.

Main Results:

  • A sparse and generalizable mapping exists between gene content and metabolite dynamics in bacteria.
  • A consumer-resource model accurately predicts community metabolite dynamics from individual microbial phenotypes.
  • Conserved impacts of metabolic genes are key to predicting community-level metabolite dynamics.

Conclusions:

  • Microbial community metabolism and metabolite dynamics are predictable from genomic information.
  • This predictability can be leveraged for applications such as metagenomic analysis and microbial community design.
  • Understanding genome evolution's impact on metabolism is facilitated by these findings.