articleNature CommunicationsJun 1, 2024GOLD OA

Engineering natural microbiomes toward enhanced bioremediation by microbiome modeling

South China Agricultural University · Nanjing Agricultural University · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

Engineering natural microbiomes for biotechnological applications remains challenging, as metabolic interactions within microbiomes are largely unknown, and practical principles and tools for microbiome engineering are still lacking. Here, we present a combinatory top-down and bottom-up framework to engineer natural microbiomes for the construction of function-enhanced synthetic microbiomes. We show that application of herbicide and herbicide-degrader inoculation drives a convergent succession of different natural microbiomes toward functional microbiomes (e.g., enhanced bioremediation of herbicide-contaminated soils). We develop a metabolic modeling pipeline, SuperCC, that can be used to document metabolic…

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