Dear JPK,

I was not aware of the absolute numbers, but maybe they are little suprising: 
when your tinned food contains 'yeast extract' it is equivalent to monosodium 
glutamate, which is commonly used as flavour enhancing agent.

I am not a chemist to worry about it, but yeast seems to have a fullfilling 
life with it.

Best,
Tim

On Thursday, January 12, 2017 12:45:03 AM CET Keller, Jacob wrote:
> Dear Crystallographers,
> 
> Was anyone else aware that in E coli the intracellular glutamate
> concentration is ~100 mM? Also other cell types (yeast, mammalian) are 10s
> mM. Anything to say about this? I learned of this just recently, and have
> been amazed about it for more than a week. Did I miss this in Biochem 101?
> Does it matter?
> 
> JPK
> 
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