Fig. 3

Different gene expression profiles in metabolic pathways of E. limosum ATCC 8486. (a) Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas glycolytic pathway (blue circle), incomplete tricarboxylic acid cycle (brown circle), Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (green circle), and pentose phosphate pathway (purple circle) are shown. (b) Ethanol producing pathway (red circle), hydrogenase complex (grey circle), Rnf complex (dark circle), ETF complex (blue circle), and ATP synthase complex (orange circle) are shown. Metabolites are shown as circles and reactions are shown as arrows. All gene numbers and enzyme reactions are provided next to the arrows. Transcriptional dynamics of E. limosum ATCC 8486 are described in the heatmap with three columns; the left and middle boxes indicate normalized RNA reads from heterotrophic and autotrophic conditions, respectively. The right box indicates RNA fold change, as autotrophic expression over heterotrophic expression. In addition, gene numbers responsible for the expression are located under the bottom box of the heatmap. A full list and expression data can be found in Additional file 1: Table S1