Number of lipids per cell

Value 2.2e+7 Unitless Range: Table - link Unitless
Organism Bacteria Escherichia coli
Reference Frederick C. Neidhardt AND H. Edwin Umbarger, Chemical Composition of Escherichia coli, chapter 3 table 1 in Neidhardt F.C. Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology. Vol 1. ASM Press 1996.
Primary Source Modified from table 1 in Neidhardt, F. C., J. L. Ingraham, and M. Schaechter 1990. Physiology of the Bacterial Cell: a Molecular Approach. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Mass.
Comments Calculated for an average cell of E. coli B/r at 37 degrees celsius in aerobic glucose with a 40 minute mass doubling time. This cell is 44% through its division cycle. See notes beneath table
Entered by Ron Milo, Paul Jorgensen, Mike Springer
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