TABLE 2.

Specific rates of ribosome synthesis and specific growth rates as calculated by RT-RiboSyn and spectrophotometry as well as percent differences between the measurements

Culture temp (°C)	Result for indicated methoda
	Spectro photometry		RT-RiboSyn
			Eub335			Acin0659
	μ (h−1)	R2	r (h−1)	R2	% Diff	r (h−1)	R2	% Diff
25	0.381	0.811	0.387	0.971	1.6	0.482	0.998	21.0
30	0.550	0.988	0.611	0.999	10.0	0.532	0.926	−3.3
35	0.562	0.925	0.545	0.996	−3.1	0.665	0.994	15.5
30b	0.007	0.476	−0.017	0.706	NA	−0.004	0.358	NA

^ar, specific rate of ribosome synthesis; μ, specific growth rate; % diff, percent difference between the measurements; NA, not applicable. The R² values of the linear regression are included.

^bStationary-phase culture.