TABLE 2.

Experimentally measured macromolecular constituents of N. lanati that were used to construct the biomass objective function for the genome-scale metabolic model^a

Biomass component or function	Mass fraction (%)
Carbohydrate	32.4 ± 1.6
Protein	43.7 ± 1.2
Lipids	4.9 ± 0.2
DNA	0.2 ± 0.1
RNA	0.6 ± 0.1
Sum	81.8 ± 3.2
GAM	76b
NGAM	2.3c

^aExperimental data were used to estimate the biomass objective function. See Materials and Methods for more details.

^bmmol ATP/g (dry weight)/h.

^cmmol ATP/g (dry weight).