Fig. 6. The model can be adjusted to predict archaeal protein-rich ribosome composition.

The model was adapted to archaea by increasing $k_{\max }^{\circ }$ two-fold. The remaining parameters were either kept the same as in E. coli (red solid line), or parameters from Thermococcus (molecular masses of R and RNAP, transcription and translation rates, see Supplementary Table 1) were used (red dashed line). Panels (a–c) represent three types of rRNA degradation. a No cooperativity of rPs. b Weak cooperativity of rPs. c Strong cooperativity of rPs.