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. 2007 May 21;75(8):3941–3949. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00337-07

TABLE 2.

Activities of compartment-specific enzymes in E. coli CFT073 cell fractions

Enzyme Mean sp act (U/mg) ± SDa
Cytoplasm Whole membraneb Outer membrane
Esterase 0.4 ± 0.2 5.5 ± 0.1 16.5 ± 6.6*
NADH oxidase 0.1 ± 0.2 23.4 ± 3.9 2.0 ± 3.5*
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase 1.7 ± 0.8 ND ND
a

ND, no detectable activity; *, P < 0.05 by a Student's t test (compared to activity in other fractions).

b

Contains inner and outer membrane fractions.