MOPS medium: (8.37 g/L MOPS powder (Sigma-Alrich, Saint Louis, MO), 0.72 g Tricine (Sigma-Alrich, Saint Louis, MO), 2.92 g/L NaCl, 0.51 g/L NH4Cl, 1.6 g/L KOH, 0.215 mg/L Na2SeO3, 0.303 mg/L Na2MoO4, 0.17 mg/L ZnCl2, 50.3 mg/L MgCl2, 48.1 mg/L K2SO4, 0.348 g/L K2HPO4, and micronutrients containing 2.5 mg/L FeCl2·4H2O, 92 μg/L CaCl2·2H2O, 31 μg/L H3BO3, 20 μg/L MnCl2·4H2O, 9 μg/L CoCl2·6H2O, 2 μg/L CuCl2·2H2O, and 48.4 μM HCl) supplemented with 1% glucose.

Sample preparation for 2-dimensional NMR analysis - Cells were prepared as described previously [1]. Cells are centrifuged, washed twice with saline water containing 0.9% NaCl, then hydrolyzed with 6 N hydrochloric acid at 110 °C for 18–24 h. Acids were evaporated, the resid ... ue reconstituted in nanopure water and filtered, then lyophilized. Finally, the sample was dissolved in deuterium oxide for NMR analysis.
NMR measurement - 2D [13C, 1H] Heteronuclear Single Quantum Correlation (HSQC) spectra were acquired on a Bruker Avance DRX 500 MHz spectrometer at 298 K and processed as described previously [1,2]. Nonoverlapping multiplets on the spectrum were quantified using NMRView [3]. Overlapping multiplets (α amino acids) were analyzed using a peak deconvolution software [1]. The amino acids isotopomer abundances measured by 2D HSQC NMR are related to the precursor metabolites by using amino acids biosynthesis pathways as described by Szyperski [4].
Flux evaluation methodology - Fluxes were quantified using NMR2Flux software developed by Sriram et al. [2]. NMR2 Flux employs isotopomer balancing and aglobal optimization routine to find stoichiometrically feasible fluxes set consistent with experimental measurements.

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