uses as carbon source

METPO:2000006 · OBJECT_PROPERTY · REVIEWED

An OBJECT_PROPERTY relating an organism to a chemical entity (e.g. a CHEBI class) that the organism uses as a source of carbon for biosynthesis. The intended use is predicate + class composition at assertion time, e.g. `<organism> METPO:2000006 CHEBI:17234` ("organism uses glucose as carbon source").

Provenance

Source: METPO (2025-11-25)
Definition source: PMID:21413255

Parent traits (1)

organism interacts with chemical METPO:2000001

Synonyms (1)

carbon source RELATED_SYNONYM · metpo.owl

Cross-references

MICRO:0001460

kg-microbe context

Matched 1 kg-microbe node via direct_metpo.

METPO:2000006 [-1.211, -0.216, -2.379, -0.057, …]

512-dim DeepWalkSkipGramEnsmallen embedding from kg-microbe (2026-04-25).

Nearest neighbors in embedding space

Top-8 cosine-similar METPO traits from the 2026-04-25 deepwalk (512-D).

metabolism reduces 0.994
metabolism does not build gas from 0.994
metabolism oxidizes 0.994
metabolism uses as electron acceptor 0.994
metabolism does not use for anaerobic growth in the dark 0.993
metabolism produces 0.993
metabolism does not use for anaerobic catabolization 0.993
metabolism builds base from 0.993

Curation history

2026-05-05T01:35:46.952542+00:00 · SEEDED_FROM_METPO · seed_from_metpo
imported from data/raw/metpo.owl (OBJECT_PROPERTY)
2026-05-10T00:00:00-07:00 · DEPRECATED_PROPERTY_RECORD · codex
Deprecated generic chemical-use relation carrier; later replacement should use more specific trait records that combine the relation with the chemical, metabolic role, growth condition, and positive or negative usage context.
2026-05-16T08:00:00-07:00 · UNDEPRECATED_AS_COMPOSITION_PRIMITIVE · claude
Restored from DEPRECATED to REVIEWED. METPO modeling uses the predicate + class composition pattern (this OBJECT_PROPERTY composed with a CHEBI carbon-bearing chemical at assertion time) rather than precomposed substrate-specific TraitRecords. Added DOI-backed definition, evidence, and the intended composition example.
2026-05-17T10:00:00-07:00 · ADDED_EXTERNAL_PREDICATE_XREF · claude
Added xrefs ['MICRO:0001460'] to record an external equivalence predicate (MICRO:0001460 'uses carbon source'). MICRO:0001460 'uses carbon source' is the direct equivalent. Source: OLS4 property search.