Spatiotemporal 4D Whole-cell Modeling of a Minimal Autotroph Reveals Central Carbon Metabolism Regulated Locally by Protein Megacomplexes via Post-translational ModiBications under Light Disturbance.
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| author | Johnson, Connah G M Chan, Aaron Rozum, Jordan George, August Parvate, Amar D Kim, Doo Nam Feng, Song Bohutskyi, Pavlo Johnson, Zachary Sadler, Natalie Garcia, Marci Li, Xiaolu Trejo, Jesse Wu, Ruonan Sineath, William Anderson, Lindsey N Evans, James E Mehta, Angad P Qian, Wei-Jun Luthey-Schulten, Zaida Cheung, Margaret S |
| author_facet | Johnson, Connah G M Chan, Aaron Rozum, Jordan George, August Parvate, Amar D Kim, Doo Nam Feng, Song Bohutskyi, Pavlo Johnson, Zachary Sadler, Natalie Garcia, Marci Li, Xiaolu Trejo, Jesse Wu, Ruonan Sineath, William Anderson, Lindsey N Evans, James E Mehta, Angad P Qian, Wei-Jun Luthey-Schulten, Zaida Cheung, Margaret S Johnson, Connah G M Chan, Aaron Rozum, Jordan George, August Parvate, Amar D Kim, Doo Nam Feng, Song Bohutskyi, Pavlo Johnson, Zachary Sadler, Natalie Garcia, Marci Li, Xiaolu Trejo, Jesse Wu, Ruonan Sineath, William Anderson, Lindsey N Evans, James E Mehta, Angad P Qian, Wei-Jun Luthey-Schulten, Zaida Cheung, Margaret S |
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| contents | Spatiotemporal 4D Whole-cell Modeling of a Minimal Autotroph Reveals Central Carbon Metabolism Regulated Locally by Protein Megacomplexes via Post-translational ModiBications under Light Disturbance. Johnson, Connah G M Chan, Aaron Rozum, Jordan George, August Parvate, Amar D Kim, Doo Nam Feng, Song Bohutskyi, Pavlo Johnson, Zachary Sadler, Natalie Garcia, Marci Li, Xiaolu Trejo, Jesse Wu, Ruonan Sineath, William Anderson, Lindsey N Evans, James E Mehta, Angad P Qian, Wei-Jun Luthey-Schulten, Zaida Cheung, Margaret S Photosynthetic microorganisms rely on multiple pathways in central carbon metabolism to adapt to fluctuating light and energy availability across diel cycles. Mechanistic insight into the regulatory dynamics of this adaptation requires integrating processes spanning disparate timescales, from rapid redox-dependent post-translational modifications (PTMs) to slower changes in protein expression and metabolic pathway usage. To address this complexity beyond genome-based inference and traditional modeling, we develop a whole-cell four-dimensional (3D + time) model of the marine cyanobacterium MED4 that explicitly represents the spatial organization of enzymatic and molecular processes in central carbon metabolism under light perturbation. We employ a perturbation-based research design to experimentally generate time-series, multi-omics measurements that provide molecular descriptors and cryo-ET images as constraints for this dynamic 4D framework. The integration of experiments and modeling across defined light regimes enables quantitative validation of system-level responses and forecasting under distinct light disturbances. We test the hypothesis that light-dependent redox PTMs regulating the structural assembly of a protein megacomplex, the "dark complex," modulate metabolic flux at a conserved regulatory node of the Calvin-Benson cycle (CBC) in cyanobacteria. Our model shows that subcellular spatial organization buffers rapid light-induced changes in thylakoid reaction rates, which are followed by redox-PTM-mediated sequestration or release of CBC enzymes in the dark complex, ultimately impacting carbon fixation dynamics within carboxysomes. Comparison with an equivalently parameterized well-mixed stochastic model demonstrates that post-translational regulation not only buffers transcriptional noise and diffusion-driven fluctuations but also stabilizes phenotypic outcomes, underscoring the importance of spatial heterogeneity in phenotypic robustness. This ability to probe adaptive, spatiotemporally resolved mechanisms in photosynthetic machinery and central carbon metabolism addresses a critical gap in genotype-to-phenotype inference and expands modeling and design capabilities for understudied or genetically intractable autotrophs such as MED4. |
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| spellingShingle | Spatiotemporal 4D Whole-cell Modeling of a Minimal Autotroph Reveals Central Carbon Metabolism Regulated Locally by Protein Megacomplexes via Post-translational ModiBications under Light Disturbance. Johnson, Connah G M Chan, Aaron Rozum, Jordan George, August Parvate, Amar D Kim, Doo Nam Feng, Song Bohutskyi, Pavlo Johnson, Zachary Sadler, Natalie Garcia, Marci Li, Xiaolu Trejo, Jesse Wu, Ruonan Sineath, William Anderson, Lindsey N Evans, James E Mehta, Angad P Qian, Wei-Jun Luthey-Schulten, Zaida Cheung, Margaret S Spatiotemporal 4D Whole-cell Modeling of a Minimal Autotroph Reveals Central Carbon Metabolism Regulated Locally by Protein Megacomplexes via Post-translational ModiBications under Light Disturbance. Johnson, Connah G M Chan, Aaron Rozum, Jordan George, August Parvate, Amar D Kim, Doo Nam Feng, Song Bohutskyi, Pavlo Johnson, Zachary Sadler, Natalie Garcia, Marci Li, Xiaolu Trejo, Jesse Wu, Ruonan Sineath, William Anderson, Lindsey N Evans, James E Mehta, Angad P Qian, Wei-Jun Luthey-Schulten, Zaida Cheung, Margaret S Photosynthetic microorganisms rely on multiple pathways in central carbon metabolism to adapt to fluctuating light and energy availability across diel cycles. Mechanistic insight into the regulatory dynamics of this adaptation requires integrating processes spanning disparate timescales, from rapid redox-dependent post-translational modifications (PTMs) to slower changes in protein expression and metabolic pathway usage. To address this complexity beyond genome-based inference and traditional modeling, we develop a whole-cell four-dimensional (3D + time) model of the marine cyanobacterium MED4 that explicitly represents the spatial organization of enzymatic and molecular processes in central carbon metabolism under light perturbation. We employ a perturbation-based research design to experimentally generate time-series, multi-omics measurements that provide molecular descriptors and cryo-ET images as constraints for this dynamic 4D framework. The integration of experiments and modeling across defined light regimes enables quantitative validation of system-level responses and forecasting under distinct light disturbances. We test the hypothesis that light-dependent redox PTMs regulating the structural assembly of a protein megacomplex, the "dark complex," modulate metabolic flux at a conserved regulatory node of the Calvin-Benson cycle (CBC) in cyanobacteria. Our model shows that subcellular spatial organization buffers rapid light-induced changes in thylakoid reaction rates, which are followed by redox-PTM-mediated sequestration or release of CBC enzymes in the dark complex, ultimately impacting carbon fixation dynamics within carboxysomes. Comparison with an equivalently parameterized well-mixed stochastic model demonstrates that post-translational regulation not only buffers transcriptional noise and diffusion-driven fluctuations but also stabilizes phenotypic outcomes, underscoring the importance of spatial heterogeneity in phenotypic robustness. This ability to probe adaptive, spatiotemporally resolved mechanisms in photosynthetic machinery and central carbon metabolism addresses a critical gap in genotype-to-phenotype inference and expands modeling and design capabilities for understudied or genetically intractable autotrophs such as MED4. |
| title | Spatiotemporal 4D Whole-cell Modeling of a Minimal Autotroph Reveals Central Carbon Metabolism Regulated Locally by Protein Megacomplexes via Post-translational ModiBications under Light Disturbance. |
| url | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41648635/ |