Table 1.

Biomass Composition

Metabolite mmole g DW Metabolite mmole g DW
Amino acids(Oura 1972)Mannan0.808
Other carbohydrates1.135
Alanine0.459 Ribonucleotides(Oura 1972)
Arginine0.161AMP0.046
Asparagine0.102CMP0.045
Asparate0.298GMP0.046
Cysteine0.007UMP0.060
Glutamine0.105 Deoxyribonucleotides(Vaughan-Martini and Martini 1993)
Glutamate0.302
Glycine0.290DAMP0.004
Histidine0.066DCMP0.002
Isoleucine0.193DGMP0.002
Leucine0.296DTMP0.004
Lysine0.286 Lipids(Nurminen et al. 1975), Sterols (Hunter and Rose 1972),
Methionine0.051Phospholipids (Kaneko et al. 1976), Fatty acids (Schulze 1995)
Phenylalanine0.134
Proline0.165Triacylglycerol0.007
Serine0.185Ergosterol0.001
Threonine0.191Zymosterol0.002
Tryptophane0.028Phosphatidate0.001
Tyrosine0.102Phosphatidylcholine0.006
Valine0.265Phosphatidylethanolamine0.004
Carbohydrates(Schulze 1995)Phosphatidylinositol0.005
Phosphatidylserine0.002
Glycogen0.519
Trehalose0.023

[i] (Schulze 1995) Details on the calculation of the biomass equation can be found under http://www.cpb.dtu.dk/models/yeastmodel.html andhttp://geneticcircuits.ucsd.edu/organisms/yeast.html.