Electrophysiological-metabolic modeling of microbes: applications in fuel cells and environment analysis

Methods Mol Biol. 2012:881:411-31. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-827-6_14.

Abstract

A formalism for simulating coupled metabolic and electrophysiological processes is presented. The resulting chemical kinetic and electrophysiological equations are solved numerically to create a cell simulator. Metabolic features of this simulator were adapted from Karyote, a multi-compartment biochemical cell modeling simulator. We present the mathematical formalism and its computational implementation as an integrated electrophysiological-metabolic model. Applications to Geobacter sulfurreducens in the environment and in a fuel cell are discussed.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Bioelectric Energy Sources*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Electrophysiology / methods*
  • Geobacter / metabolism
  • Models, Theoretical