Fig. 2

The role of the ribosomal-affiliated proteome in determining cell growth rate during the anaerobic fermentative breakdown of different glycolytic and non-glycolytic substrates. (a) The relative proportion of active and inactive ribosomal proteome share. (b) The influence of ribosomal protein synthesis time by a single ribosome, on cell doubling time. (c) The influence of inactive ribosomes and their affiliated proteome on cellular growth rate. (d) The relationship between the ratio of active-to-inactive ribosomal proteome abundance and cellular growth rate as obtained from this study and those calculated from literature data [3, 25]. The Pearson’s ‘r’ and ‘p’ values indicate the level of significance; r > 0.8 and p < 0.075