| Range |
Table - link
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| Organism |
Bacteria Escherichia coli |
| Reference |
Cayley S, Lewis BA, Guttman HJ, Record MT Jr. Characterization of the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli K-12 as a function of external osmolarity. Implications for protein-DNA interactions in vivo. J Mol Biol. 1991 Nov 20 222(2):281-300 p.289 table 3PubMed ID1960728
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| Method |
In vivo osmotic coefficients were determined from the variation of cytoplasmic volume with external osmolarity in plasmolysis titrations of non-growing cells. The values obtained (f = 0.54(±0.06) for cells grown at 0.10 OSM and f = 0.71(±0.11) at 0.28 OSM indicate a high degree of non-ideality of intracellular ions arising from coulombic interactions between K+ and cytoplasmic polyanions. |
| Comments |
An osmotic coefficient f is a quantity which characterises the deviation of a solvent from ideal behaviour, referenced to Raoult's law. |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
104051 |