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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 7.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Cell. 2016 Mar 7;36(5):540–549. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.02.012

Figure 2. Neither glucose nor glutamine contributes the majority of carbon present in proliferating mammalian cells.

Figure 2

The fraction of cell dry mass consisting of carbon in (A) H1299 and (B) A549 cancer cells exceeds the fraction of cell mass labeled by glucose or glutamine. (C) In SK1 prototrophic yeast, the fraction of cell mass labeled by glucose as the sole carbon source is equal to the fraction of cell mass composed of carbon. (D) The contributions of glucose and glutamine to cell mass are similar across mammalian cells. (E) The fraction of cellular carbon derived from glucose or glutamine in activated primary mouse T cells. Each bar represents the average of N=3 replicates, ±S.D.