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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genome size | Bacteria Streptomyces avermitilis | 8.7e+6 | bp | 104467 | Omura S et al Genome... |
| Effects of amino acids and of iron, manganese, and zinc concentrations on lag duration and time of accumulation of SK in cultures of B. megaterium | Bacteria Bacillus megaterium | Table - link | N/A | 108820 | Charles E. Lankford and... |
| Length, diameter, volume and surface area of cells in different conditions | Bacteria Escherichia coli | Table - link | N/A | 106614 | Prats R, de Pedro MA.... |
| Number of bacteria in oceans - 10^7 times more than number of stars in known universe | Biosphere | 3E+28 | Bacteria | 106620 | Copley J. All at sea.... |
| Concentration of cells grown on gluconate 0.69mM in minimal medium | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 1.5e+8 | cells/ml | 105658 | Peekhaus N, Conway T.... |
| Typical protein concentrations (20%-30% of cell volume in most cells) | Various | E. coli 230: yeast 280: human red blood cell 160: rat muscle 260: rat liver 310 | mg/ml | 113242 | Brown GC. Total cell... |
| Cell dimensions | Bacteria Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus | width 0.25: length 1 | μm | 108186 | Fenton AK, Kanna M, Woods RD... |
| Fraction of population in which SipA (type III effector protein) is highly expressed | Bacteria Salmonella typhimurium | ≈26 | % | 115217 | Schlumberger MC et al.... |
| Size (may be larger than) | Bacteria Epulopiscium fishelsoni | 600 X 80 | μm | 109503 | Koch AL. What size should... |
| Diffusion coefficient glucose in water at 25°C | Generic | 673 | μm^2/sec | 109504 | Koch AL. What size should... |
| Fraction of patients diagnosed with cancer that have mutation in p53 gene | Human Homo sapiens | 50 | % | 105092 | Koshland DE Jr. Molecule... |
| Number of different linear and circular plasmids (other than linear chromosome) | Bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi | ≥17 | different plasmids/cell | 111257 | Fraser et al., Genomic... |
| Number of PR [proteorhodopsin] molecules in various types of PRP [(PR)-based phototrophic] bacteria | bacteria | Table - link | proteorhodopsins/cell | 111296 | Kirchman DL, Hanson TE.... |
| Volume of water explored by a microbe randomly swimming at 50 µm/s | Microbes | 0.5 µl (a ~0.8mm cube) of new water every 10 min and 0.8 ml (a ~1 cm cube) every day | N/A | 110353 | Stocker R. Marine microbes... |
| Number of random gene disruptions that are lethal out of 79 disruptions | Bacteria Bacillus subtilis | 6 | lethal disruptions/79 random disruptions | 112736 | Koonin EV. How many genes... |
| Cell dimensions | Bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae | 300 by 700 | nm | 107814 | Kühner S et al., Proteome... |
| Size of pyruvate dehydrogenase | Bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae | ~23 | nm | 107815 | Kühner S et al., Proteome... |
| Size of ribosome | Bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae | ~26 | nm | 107821 | Kühner S et al., Proteome... |
| Size of RNA polymerase | Bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae | ~17 | nm | 107822 | Kühner S et al., Proteome... |
| Internal volume of a typical cell - excluding cell wall, membrane, ribosomes, etc. | bacteria | 0.2 | µm^3 | 105905 | Halling PJ. Do the laws... |