Constraints on enzyme production at low O₂ and limitations of stoichiometric vector analyses: A commentary on Chen et al. (2022)

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Acknowledgments

I wish to thank D. L. Moorhead for recalculating the enzyme vectors and associated statistics, and for constructive comments on this commentary.

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