Fernando Santos-Beneit

Paracoccus denitrificans has been broadly used as a model denitrifying organism. It grows on a large portfolio of carbon sources, under aerobic and anoxic conditions. These characteristics, together with its amenability to genetic manipulations, make P. denitrificans a promising cell factory for industrial biotechnology. This paper presents and validates the first functional genome-scale metabolic model for P. denitrificans , which is a key tool to enable P. denitrificans as a platform for metabolic engineering and industrial biotechnology. Optimization of the biomass yield led to accurate predictions in a broad scope of substrates.