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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volume of bacterium | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | ~8.4 | µm^3 | 101691 | Signore A, D'Alessandria C... |
| Volume of bacterium | Bacteria Staphylococcus aureus | 1.76 | µm^3 | 101579 | Signore A, D'Alessandria C... |
| Mass of an individual bacterium | bacteria | 600×10^−18 – 700×10^−18 | Kg | 117320 | Christina L Lewis, Caelli... |
| Volume of average bacterium in feces | Human Homo sapiens | 1 | μm^3 | 108287 | Cummings JH, Stephen... |
| Average mass of bacterium in stool | Human Homo sapiens | 4.6 | pg | 112998 | Sender R, Fuchs S, Milo... |
| Number of c-rings in ATPase (equivalent to number of protons (Na+) translocated/rotation) | Bacterium Ilyobacter tartaricus | 11 | Unitless | 106287 | Stahlberg H, Müller DJ... |
| Maximal swimming speed | Sulfur bacterium Thiovulum majus | ~600 | μm/s | 107652 | Herzog & Wirth, 2012.... |
| Approximate chemical composition of a bacterium, yeast and mammalian cell | Various | Table - link | g/cm^3 | 111209 | Feijó Delgado et al.... |
| Composition of Escherichia coli, a typical gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium | Bacteria Escherichia coli | Table - link | N/A | 107479 | Editor: Dr. Robert A. Meyers... |
| Date of endosymbiosis of a free-living bacterium that led to mitochondria | Unspecified | ~2 | Billion years ago | 107042 | Kiefel BR, Gilson PR... |
| Volume of protoplasm generated in 48 hours by one bacterium that has an intracellular volume of 1 μm3, a doubling time of 20 min and constantly divides | bacteria | 2.2E+25 | m^3 | 109506 | Russell JB, Cook GM.... |
| Stable, soluble and toxic metals plus essential transition metals and number of atoms in bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 114114 | Nies DH. The biological... |
| Bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) content and the number of PSUs [photosynthetic units] per AAP [aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic] bacterium | bacteria | Table - link | N/A | 111297 | Kirchman DL, Hanson TE.... |
| Concentration of heterologously-produced β carotene in stationary phase | Bacteria Zymomonas mobilis | 220 | µg/g dry weight | 106032 | Misawa N, Yamano S, Ikenaga... |
| Concentration of heterologously-produced β carotene in stationary phase | Bacteria Agrobacterium tumefaciens | 350 | µg/g dry weight | 106033 | Misawa N, Yamano S, Ikenaga... |
| Cell membrane thickness | Bacteria Pseudomonas fluorescence | 5-10 | nm | 103947 | EL-Hag, A. Jayaram, S.H.... |
| Typical cellular speed | Bacteria Listeria monocytogenes | 0.1 | μm/sec | 106823 | Rafelski SM, Alberts JB... |
| Fraction of cell volume that is periplasmic space | Bacteria Escherichia coli | ≈40 | % | 115332 | Meinhard Simon, Farooq Azam... |
| Carbon:cell volume ratios determined from carbon measurements in bacterial cultures or in size-fractionated natural bacterial assemblages | bacteria | (Bjørnsen 1986) 354 mg C/ml: (Lee and Fuhrman 1987) 380 mg C/ml: (Bratbak 1985) 560 | mg C/ml | 115334 | Meinhard Simon, Farooq Azam... |
| Carbon per cell in volume range 0.036 to 0.073µm^3 | Bacteria Escherichia coli | (Lee and Fuhrman 1987) 20 fg C/cell: (present study) 13 - 19 | fg C/cell | 115335 | Meinhard Simon, Farooq Azam... |