Quantitative relationships for specific growth rates and micromolecular compositions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) and Escherichia coli B/r: An integrative theoretical approach

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1413-1426

  Cox, Robert A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CALCULATION; CELL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ENERGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OPERON; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIBOSOME; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; SYNTHESIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI B; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 2942565809     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26560-0     Document Type: Article

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