Contribution of 50 different types of the most abundant macromolecules to cytoplasm’s characterized protein content by weight

Range ~85 %
Organism Bacteria Escherichia coli
Reference McGuffee SR, Elcock AH. Diffusion, crowding & protein stability in a dynamic molecular model of the bacterial cytoplasm. PLoS Comput Biol. 2010 Mar 5 6(3):e1000694. p.1 right column 2nd paragraphPubMed ID20221255
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Comments "...the model contains 50 different types of the most abundant macromolecules of the E. coli cytoplasm (accounting for ,85% of the cytoplasm’s characterized protein content by weight [primary source]) and a total of 1008 individual molecules."
Entered by Uri M
ID 108458