A compact model of Escherichia coli core and biosynthetic metabolism
Fig 5
Growth rates and biomass yields achieved by different elementary flux modes of iCH360red for growth on glucose.
The inset on the top left (corresponding to the area of the plot enclosed by the red rectangle) highlights the front of Pareto-optimal EFMs (squares), with the maximum-growth and maximum yield modes lying at the extremes of the front. The growth rate of each mode was estimated by assuming that the metabolic enzymes in the model occupy, by mass, a constant fraction of the cell’s dry weight (see Methods).