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. 2017 Aug 22;2(4):e00057-17. doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00057-17

TABLE 1 .

Average fractions of the metabolites taken up from the phagosome used for biomass synthesisa

Metabolite Uptake frequency in solutions Mean biomass fraction
Cholesterol 1.00 0.00
Octadecanoate 1.00 0.00
Tetradecanoate 1.00 0.07
Hexadecanoate 1.00 0.27
Cytidine 0.97 0.00
Glucose 0.97 0.11
Leucine 0.87 0.82
Arginine 0.87 0.89
Glutamate 0.80 0.62
Pyruvate 0.77 0.00
Isoleucine 0.77 0.37
Aspartate 0.73 0.03
Ornithine 0.70 0.00
Serine 0.63 0.08
Methionine 0.53 0.19
Glycerol 0.50 0.00
Indole-3-acetaldehyde 0.40 0.00
Threonine 0.40 1.00
Citrate 0.37 0.00
Lysine 0.37 0.06
Phenylalanine 0.33 0.54
Valine 0.30 0.73
Histidine 0.20 0.04
Malate 0.17 0.00
Asparagine 0.17 1.00
Proline 0.13 1.00
Glycerol-3-phosphate 0.10 0.00
Succinate 0.10 0.00
Tryptophan 0.10 0.02
Glycine 0.10 0.69
Lactate 0.07 0.00
Alanine 0.07 0.15
Tyrosine 0.03 0.00
a

Average fractions of the metabolites taken up from the phagosome used for biomass synthesis predicted by flux balance analysis with RNA-seq constraints. The fraction is an average of 36 model runs with different parameter sets constraining the lower bounds of mycobacterial and THP-1 biomass fluxes.