| Value |
3e+8
Copies/cell
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| Organism |
Bacteria Escherichia coli |
| Reference |
Calculated from E. coli cellular metabolite concentration of 300 mM (Primary source) |
| Primary Source |
Bennett BD, Kimball EH, Gao M, Osterhout R, Van Dien SJ, Rabinowitz JD. Absolute metabolite concentrations and implied enzyme active site occupancy in Escherichia coli. Nat Chem Biol. 2009 Aug5(8):593-9 Table - link PubMed ID19561621
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| Method |
The total observed intracellular metabolite pool was approximately 300 mM (BNID 104 678, primary source). Concentration of 1nM in a cell volume of 1 µm^3 corresponds to one molecule/cell (BNID 102 068), concentration of 300mM corresponds to 3X10^8 molecules/cell. Measurement method of primary source: Researchers quantified metabolites by Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) using an isotope ratio-based approach (8). As isotope-labeled standards for many metabolites are not available, they used uniformly 13C-labeled glucose medium to label the intracellular metabolome of E. coli (25). This enabled the use of commercially available unlabeled compounds as internal standards. |
| Comments |
A small number of metabolites dominate the metabolome on a molar basis, with glutamate being the most abundant. |
| Entered by |
Ron Milo, Paul Jorgensen, Mike Springer |
| ID |
100125 |