Table 1 Literature values (Table 28) of Ks and calculation of \({{V}}_{{h}}=\frac{{\lambda }}{{{K}}_{{s}}}\), for different chemostat experiments using hexoses as substrates.

From: Insights from Microbial Transition State Theory on Monod’s Affinity Constant

Ks reported [\({\boldsymbol{\mu }}{\boldsymbol{g}}{\boldsymbol{/}}{\boldsymbol{L}}\)] for E. Coli ML 30

λ (gS/gX) *Estimated by Energy dissipation Method (Supplementary Material) **Measured during experiment

Vh[L/gX]

Vh[μm3/cell] (cell dry weight: 2.8 10−13gr/cell) (Ref: 16 BNID: 103904 Neidhart et al.)

Radius \([{\boldsymbol{\mu }}{\boldsymbol{m}}]\) of a sphere of volume \({V}_{h}\)

33 (Ref: 17)

\({\lambda }^{\ast }=1.89\)

\(4.91\cdot {10}^{4}\)

\(1.6\cdot {10}^{7}\)

156

33 (Ref: 17)

\({\lambda }^{\ast }=1.88\)

\(4.85\cdot {10}^{4}\)

\(1.6\cdot {10}^{7}\)

156

53 (Ref: 15)

\({\lambda }^{\ast }=1.88\)

\(3.02\cdot {10}^{4}\)

\(9.94\cdot {10}^{6}\)

133

72 (Ref: 15)

\({\lambda }^{\ast }=1.88\)

\(2.22\cdot {10}^{4}\)

\(7.32\cdot {10}^{6}\)

120

76 (Ref: 18)

\({\lambda }^{\ast \ast }=2.22\)

\(2.92\cdot {10}^{4}\)

\(8.19\cdot {10}^{6}\)

125

90 (Ref: 18)

\({\lambda }^{\ast \ast }=2.22\)

\(2.47\cdot {10}^{4}\)

\(6.91\cdot {10}^{6}\)

118

100 (Ref: 18)

\({\lambda }^{\ast \ast }=2.22\)

\(2.22\cdot {10}^{4}\)

\(6.22\cdot {10}^{6}\)

114

132 (Ref: 18)

\({\lambda }^{\ast \ast }=2.22\)

\(1.68\cdot {10}^{4}\)

\(4.71\cdot {10}^{6}\)

104

125 (Ref: 18)

\({\lambda }^{\ast \ast }=2.22\)

\(1.77\cdot {10}^{4}\)

\(4.98\cdot {10}^{6}\)

105