Growth-rate-dependent partitioning of RNA polymerases in bacteria

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 20245-20250

  Klumpp, Stefan ^a   Hwa, Terence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive promoters; Ribosomal RNA; Stringent response; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION;

BACTERIA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58149527756     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804953105     Document Type: Article

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