Glycogen Synthesis and Metabolite Overflow Contribute to Energy Balancing in Cyanobacteria
Summary: Understanding how living cells manage high-energy metabolites such as ATP and NADPH is essential for understanding energy transformations in the biosphere.Using light as the energy input, we find that energy charge (ratio of ATP over L-Leucine ADP+ATP) in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp.PCC 6803 varies in different growth stages, with