A coarse-grained biophysical model of E. coli and its application to perturbation of the rRNA operon copy number

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Tadmor, Arbel D ^a,b   Tlusty, Tsvi ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; COARSE-GRAINED MODELING; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; PROTEINS; RNA;

BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; CELLULAR COMPOSITION; COARSE-GRAINED; COPY NUMBER; E. COLI; EXPONENTIALS; ITS APPLICATIONS; OPERON COPY; STEADY STATE; WILD TYPES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH RATE; MODEL; OPERON; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIOPHYSICS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; MODELS, GENETIC; RRNA OPERON;

EID: 44949162900     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000038     Document Type: Article

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