Fig. 2
Relation between biomass specific ATP production rate (qATP) and the growth rate. The filled triangles and squares represent measurements from chemostat cultures and a partial cell recycling chemostat cultures, respectively. The dashed line is a linear regression line based on data from chemostat cultures which is used to estimate the maximum biomass yield on ATP (− 1/slope) and the maintenance coefficient (intercept). The black line represent the model in which the maintenance exponentially decreases at low growth rates (Eq. 4). The axis of the inset are the same as of the main figure. Error bars represent standard deviations of technical replicates