Metabolism

B. subtilis is a chemoheterotrophic organism. It uses glucose and ammonium/glutamine as preferred sources of carbon and nitrogen, respectively. The bacteria can grow on a minimal medium. It produces all cofactors.

A suite of models of B. subtilis metabolism can by found in SubtiPathways.

Models of metabolism

Christopher S Henry, Jenifer F Zinner, Matthew P Cohoon, Rick L Stevens
iBsu1103: a new genome-scale metabolic model of Bacillus subtilis based on SEED annotations.
Genome Biol: 2009, 10(6);R69
[PubMed:19555510] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Anne Goelzer, Fadia Bekkal Brikci, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete, Philippe Noirot, Philippe Bessières, Stéphane Aymerich, Vincent Fromion
Reconstruction and analysis of the genetic and metabolic regulatory networks of the central metabolism of Bacillus subtilis.
BMC Syst Biol: 2008, 2;20
[PubMed:18302748] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

You-Kwan Oh, Bernhard O Palsson, Sung M Park, Christophe H Schilling, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan
Genome-scale reconstruction of metabolic network in Bacillus subtilis based on high-throughput phenotyping and gene essentiality data.
J Biol Chem: 2007, 282(39);28791-28799
[PubMed:17573341] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Minimal genome projects

Yusuke Azuma, Motonori Ota
An evaluation of minimal cellular functions to sustain a bacterial cell.
BMC Syst Biol: 2009, 3;111
[PubMed:19943949] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Relevant papers on other organisms

Ying Zhang, Ines Thiele, Dana Weekes, Zhanwen Li, Lukasz Jaroszewski, Krzysztof Ginalski, Ashley M Deacon, John Wooley, Scott A Lesley, Ian A Wilson, Bernhard Palsson, Andrei Osterman, Adam Godzik
Three-dimensional structural view of the central metabolic network of Thermotoga maritima.
Science: 2009, 325(5947);1544-9
[PubMed:19762644] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jie Yuan, Christopher D Doucette, William U Fowler, Xiao-Jiang Feng, Matthew Piazza, Herschel A Rabitz, Ned S Wingreen, Joshua D Rabinowitz
Metabolomics-driven quantitative analysis of ammonia assimilation in E. coli.
Mol Syst Biol: 2009, 5;302
[PubMed:19690571] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Bryson D Bennett, Elizabeth H Kimball, Melissa Gao, Robin Osterhout, Stephen J Van Dien, Joshua D Rabinowitz
Absolute metabolite concentrations and implied enzyme active site occupancy in Escherichia coli.
Nat Chem Biol: 2009, 5(8);593-9
[PubMed:19561621] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)