https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001md34
It is one of my favourites.
Are we talking milliseconds or minutes?
According to https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?s=n&v=2&id... a single mammalian cell has a mass of 3 to 4 nanograms.
Google AI tells me the average rate of ATP formation in a mammalian cell is around 10 million molecules per second.
The ratio here ranges from 3 to 40 minutes.
I imagine it varies greatly depending on cell type.
It would be an interesting experiment though. I'd expect that they might not live, or that the cell would function sub-optimally, but who knows, maybe the cellular machinery is highly conserved.
https://www.pbs.org/video/is-there-a-simple-solution-to-the-...