Table 1

Optimal production of the twelve biosynthetic precursors and the metabolic cofactors.

Compound
μmol/g DW
Compound
μmol/g DW

Amino Acids

Phospholipids

Alanine
488
Phosphatidyl serine
2.58
Arginine
281
Phosphatidyl ethanolamine
96.75
Asparagine
229
Phosphatidyl glycerol
23.22
Aspartate
229
Cardiolypin
6.45
Cysteine
87
Fatty acid composition (% of total fatty acid)

Glutamate
250
Myristic acid (2.68)

Glutamine
250
Myristoleic acid (7.70)

Glycine
582
Palmitic acid (38.23)

Histidine
90
Palmitoleic acid (10.74)

Isoleucine
276
Heptadecenoic acid (16.11)

Leucine
428
cis-Vaccenic acid (0.90)

Lysine
326
Oleic acid (17.91)

Methionine
146
Nonadecenoic acid (5.73)

Phenylalanine
176
Cell Wall Sructures

Proline
210
Lipopolysaccharide
8.4
Serine
205
Peptidoglycan
27
Threonine
241
Cofactors and other molecules

Tryptophan
54
5-Methyl-THF
50.0
Tyrosine
131
Putrescine
35.0
Valine
402
Spermidine
7.0
Protein synthesis/processing (ATP/ Amino Acid)
4.306
NAD
2.15
Ribonucleotides

NADH
0.05
ATP
165
NADP
0.13
GTP
203
NADPH
0.4
CTP
126
UDP-Glucose
3.0
UTP
136
ATP
4.0
RNA synthesis/processing (ATP/Nucleotide)
0.40
ADP
2.0
Deoxyribonucleotides

AMP
1.0
dATP
24.7
CoA
0.03
dTTP
24.7
Acetyl-CoA
0.04
dGTP
25.4
Succinyl-CoA
0.01
dCTP
25.4
Glycogen
154
DNA synthesis/processing (ATP/Nucleotide)
1.372



The optimal production was calculated for the wild-type strain and the deletion strains. The constraints are set as defined in Figure 1. The color code quantitatively defines effect of the in silico deletion; red corresponds to 0.0, yellow corresponds to 0-50% of the wild-type production, blue corresponds to 50-100% of the wild-type, and no color coding is illustrated when the production is unchanged from the wild-type. Data for other carbon sources is available online. G6P, glucose-6-phosphate; F6P, fructose-6-phosphate; R5P, ribose-5-phosphate; E4P,erythrose 4-phosphate; T3P1, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate; 3PG, 3-phosphoglycerate; PEP, phosphoenolpyruvate; PYR, pyruvate; ACCOA, acetyl-CoA; AKG, α-ketoglutarate; SUCCOA, succinyl-CoA; OA, oxaloacetate.

Edwards and Palsson BMC Bioinformatics 2000 1:1   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-1-1