| Value |
30.3
ATP
|
| Organism |
Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Reference |
Wagner, A., Energy Constraints on the Evolution of Gene Expression, Mol. Biol. Evol. 22(6):1365–1374. 2005PubMed ID15758206
|
| Primary Source |
Wang et al. 2002 Arava et al. 2003 Ghaemmaghami et al. 2003 Huh et al. 2003). |
| Comments |
The energy currency Wagner uses is the activated (high-energy) phosphate bond [~P]. The median length of a yeast protein is 385 amino acids (BNID 100206), with a combined biosynthesis and polymerization cost of 30.3 [~P] per amino acid. |
| Entered by |
Ron Milo - Admin |
| ID |
100207 |