Table 1

Correlation between enzymatic flux magnitude and evolutionary constraint Ka/Ks

Uptake
Maximum uptake rates (mmol/gDW/h)
Spearman's rank correlation (P value) with zero fluxes
Spearman's rank correlation (P value) without zero fluxes

Glucose/oxygen
15.3/2.4
-0.28 (P = 3.8 × 10-3)
-0.25 (P = 3.6 × 10-6)

Glucose/oxygen
15.3/0.2
-0.31 (P = 1.7 × 10-3)
-0.22 (P = 5.7 × 10-5)
Glucose/oxygen
15.3/0.01
-0.26 (P = 9.3 × 10-3)
-0.21 (P = 1.2 × 10-4)
Fructose/oxygen
15.3/6.0
-0.27 (P = 6.4 × 10-3)
-0.20 (P = 2.5 × 10-4)
Fructose/oxygen
15.3/0.2
-0.25 (P = 1.3 × 10-2)
-0.20 (P = 1.8 × 10-6)
Acetate/oxygen
10.0/2.4
-0.08 (P = 0.45)
-0.21 (P = 9.2 × 10-5)
Acetate/oxygen
5.0/5.0
-0.010 (P = 0.39)
-0.19 (P = 3.7 × 10-4)

The correlation between enzymatic flux magnitude and evolutionary constraint Ka/Ks was calculated with and without enzymes carrying zero fluxes. gDW, grams dry weight.

Vitkup et al. Genome Biology 2006 7:R39   doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-5-r39

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