Membrane efficiency of respiration

Value 4 ATP/s/nm^2 Range: ±1 ATP/s/nm^2
Organism Bacteria Escherichia coli
Reference Szenk M, Dill KA, de Graff AMR. Why Do Fast-Growing Bacteria Enter Overflow Metabolism? Testing the Membrane Real Estate Hypothesis. Cell Syst. 2017 Aug 235(2):95-104. doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2017.06.005. p.99 left column top paragraphPubMed ID28755958
Comments p.98 right column bottom paragraph: "Thus far, [investigators] have estimated the membrane demands of the electron transport chain, assuming that ATP is produced by a purely respiratory metabolism. Would less membrane area be needed if acetate fermentation was used instead? In other words, is acetate fermentation more surface efficient? A detailed calculation of the surface efficiency of both acetate fermentation and respiration can be found in Box 1. [They] find the membrane efficiency of acetate fermentation to be 15 ± 5 ATP/s/nm^2 [BNID 114687], significantly higher than respiration’s 4 ± 1 ATP/s/nm^2. Acetate fermentation can therefore produce the same amount of ATP as respiration using roughly a quarter of the membrane space, at the expense of a much lower ATP yield per glucose (Neidhardt and Curtiss, 1996) (Box 1)."
Entered by Uri M
ID 114705