Total amount of protein in cell

Range 4.9e-12 to 6.4e-12 Grams
Organism Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Reference Siwiak M, Zielenkiewicz P. A comprehensive, quantitative, and genome-wide model of translation.PLoS Comput Biol. 2010 Jul 29 6(7):e1000865. p.5 out of 15 left column 2nd paragraphPubMed ID20686685
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Comments 4.9×10^-12 g from primary source [16], 6.4×10^-12 g from primary source [35]. Siwiak et al. in this study estimated that the total mass of proteins in a yeast cell is around 2.2×10^-12 g.
Entered by Uri M
ID 106225