Model Construction and Analysis of Respiration in Halobacterium salinarum
Fig 6
The building blocks of a cell obtained by harmonizing the different data gathered from literature [25, 26].
A 1 ml OD cell suspension contains 1.81 μL cell pellet and 1.36 × 109 halobacterial cells. (A) The 1.81 μL cell pellet consists of 0.47 μL cellular organic material, 0.45 μL cellular basal salt and 0.89 μL inter-cellular basal salt. The total cell volume (1.36 μL from the sum of organic material and cellular basal salt) contains 0.80 μL water. (B) Using a buoyant density of 1.2 mg/mL for the cells [25, 26], the 1.36 μL cell volume is 1.63 μg. This consists of 0.80 μg water and other components. (C) Assuming that a cell pellet contains 1.36 × 109 halobacterial cells, then an individual cell has a mass of 1.2 pg. (D) The components by volume of a cell is given. See S1 File for more details. Units: μL = micro liters, pg = pico grams, fL = femto liters.