Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of Archaea Lends Insight into Diversity of Metabolic Function

Table 2

Cellular Molar Fractions. The composition of each Archaea’s biomass organized by major categories.

Molecule	iOG490/iOG478	iVS941	iMB745//iST807	iAF692	iMG746	iMhu428	iMM518	iMsi385	iOG654
Amino acids	0.894	0.869	0.889	0.858	0.852	0.889	0.662	0.904	0.908	NA
DNA	0.003	0.018	0.013	0.016	0.008	0.013	0.013	0.016	0.012	NA
RNA	0.086	0.090	0.076	0.102	0.100	0.076	0.080	0.077	0.066	NA
Lipids	0.015	0.009	0.008	0.009	0.009	0.008	0.277	0.002	0.013	NA
Carbohydrates	NA	0.002	0.009	0.002	0.008	0.009	0.0004	NA	NA	NA
Soluble pool	0.001	0.013	0.006	0.013	0.016	0.006	0.0081	NA	0.001	NA

iMAC868 model adopted the iMB745 biomass expression verbatim. S. solfataricus paper does not detail the biomass components and the model was not available to query. “Soluble pool” includes various vitamins, cofactors, and trace metals.