Spatiotemporal modeling of microbial metabolism

BMC Systems Biology

Table 2 Cellular objective functions used for C. ljungdahlii metabolism

Number	Direction	Objective	Reason
1	Maximize	Growth rate	Assumed primary objective
2	Maximize	CO uptake rate	Maximize nutrient consumption
3	Maximize	H₂ uptake rate	Maximize nutrient consumption
4	Minimize	CO₂ synthesis rate	Minimize byproduct synthesis
5	Minimize	Acetate synthesis rate	Minimize byproduct synthesis
6	Minimize	Ethanol synthesis rate	Minimize byproduct synthesis

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