Trade-off between segregational stability and metabolic burden: A mathematical model of plasmid ColE1 replication control

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 279, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-88

  Paulsson, Johan ^a   Ehrenberg, Måns ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Burden; ColE1; Plamid; Regulation; Segregational

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE NUMBER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0032577386     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1751     Document Type: Article

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