Several conditions bearing the common theme that induction occurred on or after the onset of stationary phase all result in a much lower enhancement of carbon-13 incorporation. Contrasting the results in Tables 1 and 2 supports that enhanced carbon-13 incorporation is higher when the fractional quantity of u-13C-glucose is added near the end of log phase growth, prior to stationary phase. Number of transient recorded for the 1D-HNCO experiments are 7: 512, 8: 384, 9, 64.