course_notes/nutrient_uptake_assimilation_growth.htm
1. Introduction
a. simple story - nutrient_uptake.htm
2. Redfield ratio for cell composition and nutrients
a. elemental composition - elemental_composition.htm
b. forms of the nutrients in water
3. Uptake mechanisms (for all but NO3)
4. Nitrate uptake and assimilation
5. Metabolism
a. respiration in algae
Mehler reaction - balance of flow through photosystems and RPPP
relative contribution of photorespiration, cytochrome oxidase and mehler reaction
b. respiration in cyanobacteria (dual function electron transport membrane)
c. biosynthesis
i. pathways
ii. cost
respiration rate related to growth rate - figure from Falkowski and Raven
d. Shift up/Shift down - shift.htm
6. Enzymatic and biosythetic machinery (E)
a. composition - list of biochemical components
b. molecular efficiency
c. link to other cellular components (Pmemb, Penz, R, S, Nassim)
7. Optimization of the content of a cell (with all components)
a. description
b. steady state, periodic or fluctuating
c. simulation 3
d. regulation of components - simulation 4
e. other ideas about regulation
8. Growth - definitions
a. increase in biomass
b. balanced growth
c. synchronized growth
9. (CSR strategies) AND (uptake, assimilation and growth mechanisms)
