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Table 1 Comparison of maximum ATP yields from different carbon source ‘fuel’ metabolites

From: MitoCore: a curated constraint-based model for simulating human central metabolism

Metabolite

MitoCore ATP Yield

Recon 2.2 ATP Yield

Glucose

33.0

32.0

Fatty acid hexadecanoate (C16)

111.8

106.8

Lactate

15.5

15.0

Hydroxybutanoate

23.1

20.3

Acetoacetate

20.2

18.0

Histidine

26.3

25.5

Isoleucine

37.8

35.5

Leucine

37.1

33.5

Lysine

36.2

32.0

Methionine

18.3

27.0

Phenylalanine

36.2

33.0

Threonine

20.1

19.0

Tryptophan

43.1

39.5

Valine

30.1

29.0

Arginine

29.2

27.5

Aspartate

16.0

15.0

Cysteine

16.1

17.5

Glutamate

23.8

22.5

Glutamine

24.0

22.5

Glycine

8.0

8.0

Proline

28.1

27.5

Serine

13.1

13.5

Tyrosine

38.9

35.5

Asparagine

16.0

15.0

Alanine

16.0

15.0