Volume of a Bacterial Cell.

     “Volume of a bacterial cell was taken as 2 × 10^-15 liters (18) or 2.5 μl/mg dry weight (19) assuming that the weight of one cell is 9.5 × 10^-13 g and the dry weight of one cell is 2.8 × 10^-13 g (20). Alternatively, the volume of a tubercle bacillus was calculated assuming that one cell represents a cylinder with width ranging from 0.3 to 0.6 μm and length from 1 to 4 μm and that lipid represents ≈60% of wet weight (21). “


18. Mengin-Lecreulx, D., Flouret, B. & van Heijenoort, J. (1982) J. Bacteriol. 151: 1109-1117.
19. Guerlava, P., Izac, V. & Tholozan, J. L. (1998) Curr. Microbiol. 36: 131-135.
20. Neidhardt, F. (1987) in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium Cellular and Molecular Biology, eds. Neidhardt, F., Ingraham, J., Brooks Low, K., Magasanik, B., Schaechter, M. & Edwin Umbarger, H. (Am. Soc. Microbiol. Press, Washington, DC), Vol. 1: p. 5.
21. Zinsser, H. & Joklik, W. (1988) Zinsser Microbiology (Appleton and Lange, Norwalk, CT).