Table 3.
Variation in the peptide chain elongation rate (PER), the number of active ribosomes in the cell per one amino acid in the synthesised proteins (RSGR:PER )and the fraction of rRNA in total RNA (FrRNA )in the studies
| Organism | PER, amino acids per second per ribosome | R SGR:PER , × 10 -5 ribosomes per amino acids | F rRNA | |
| Range | Mean value | |||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Escherichia coli | 12–21 | 0.97–2.29 | 0.851–0.866 | 0.856 |
| Streptomyces coelicolor | 0.59–3.17 | 1.13–2.63 | 0.851–0.858 | 0.855 |
| Mycobacterium bovis | 2.0 | 0.40 | 0.875 | 0.857 |
| Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2 studies) | 2.8–10.0 | 0.69–1.20 | 0.81–0.82 | 0.82 |
| Neurospora crassa | 5.35–8.02 | 0.47–2.18 | 0.694–0.884 | 0.857 |
| Range (all the organisms) | 0.59–21 | 0.40–2.63 | 0.69–0.88 | 0.82–0.857 |
| Change by a factor of | 36 | 6.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 |