Maintenance metabolism and carbon fluxes in Bacillus species

Table 2 Physiological data of glucose minimal medium batch cultures

Species	Growth rate	Yield	Glucose consumption rate	Acetate production rate	Pyruvate production rate
	h^-1	g_CDW/g_glc	mmol g^-1 h^-1	mmol g^-1 h^-1	mmol g^-1 h^-1
B. subtilis wild type	0.67 ± 0.02^a	0.44 ± 0.03^a	8.71 ± 0.64^a	4.28 ± 0.29^a	n/a
B. subtilis spo0A	0.71 ± 0.03	0.33 ± 0.02	11.30 ± 0.14	7.02 ± 0.21	n/a
B. subtilis sigE	0.67 ± 0.01	0.48 ± 0.06	7.90 ± 0.74	3.60 ± 0.08	n/a
B. amyloliquefaciens	0.32 ± 0.01	0.23 ± 0.02	6.05 ± 0.24	n/a	5.45 ± 0.05
B. licheniformis T218a	0.37 ± 0.02	0.44 ± 0.01	4.63 ± 0.24	3.03 ± 0.20	0.22 ± 0.03
B. licheniformis T380B	0.49 ± 0.02	0.41 ± 0.03	6.67 ± 0.31	4.17 ± 0.94	0.40 ± 0.01
B. pumilus	0.28 ± 0.02	0.33 ± 0.04	4.17 ± 0.33	1.40 ± 0.60	n/a
B. subtilis natto	0.69 ± 0.02	0.35 ± 0.05	10.83 ± 0.82	9.60 ± 1.10	n/a

^a Value refer to standard deviation from at least two independent experiments. n/a – not applicable

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