Correlation of the rate of protein synthesis and the third power of the RNA: Protein ratio in Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 729-737

  Cox, Robert A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH RATE; MACROMOLECULE; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RIBOSOME; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RNA, BACTERIAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037352496     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25645-0     Document Type: Article

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