Table 1 Parameters used for the simulations.

From: Scale invariance of cell size fluctuations in starving bacteria

 

Parameters

LB → PBS

M9(Glc+a.a.) → PBS

Parameters on the exponential growth phase

λ0

0.029 \({\min }^{-1}\)

0.010 \({\min }^{-1}\)

\({\mu }_{0}^{-1}\)

\(1.3{\lambda }_{0}^{-0.84}+42\simeq 67\)\(\min\)

\(1.3{\lambda }_{0}^{-0.84}+42\simeq 104\)\(\min\)

v0

4.9 μm3

1.8 μm3

δmean or \({v}_{{{{{{{{\rm{mean}}}}}}}}}^{{{{{{{{\rm{th}}}}}}}}}\)

δmean = 0.275 μm3

δmean = 0.25 μm3

δstd or \({v}_{{{{{{{{\rm{std}}}}}}}}}^{{{{{{{{\rm{th}}}}}}}}}\)

0.1 × δmean = 0.025 μm3

0.1 × δmean = 0.0225 μm3

\({X}_{{{{{{{{\rm{std}}}}}}}}}^{{{{{{{{\rm{CD,th}}}}}}}}}\)

\(0.05\times \langle {X}_{i}^{{{{{{{{\rm{CD,th}}}}}}}}}\rangle =0.05\)

\(0.05\times \langle {X}_{i}^{{{{{{{{\rm{CD,th}}}}}}}}}\rangle =0.05\)

\({x}_{{{{{{{{\rm{std}}}}}}}}}^{{{{{{{{\rm{sep}}}}}}}}}\)

0.0325

0.0325

Time-dependent rates

\(\lambda (t)={\lambda }_{0}\frac{1-A}{{e}^{ct}-A}\)

A = 0.93, c = 0.0059\({\min }^{-1}\)

A = 0.84, c = 0.011\({\min }^{-1}\)

\({\mu }_{i}(t)=\frac{{\mu }_{0}}{{v}_{0}}\frac{k+1}{k{e}^{t/\tau }+1}{v}_{i}\)

k = 0.01, τ = 40\(\min\)

k = 0.01, τ = 16\(\min\)