RNA polymerase mutants found through adaptive evolution reprogram Escherichia coli for optimal growth in minimal media

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

Volumn 107, Issue 47, 2010, Pages 20500-20505

  Conrad, Tom M ^a   Frazier, Michael ^b   Joyce, Andrew R ^c   Cho, Byung Kwan ^d   Knight, Eric M ^d   Lewis, Nathan E ^d   Landick, Robert ^b   Palsson, Bernhard Ø ^d  

^a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Department of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Stringent response; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CARBON; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

BIOMASS; CELL MOTILITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 78650546051     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911253107     Document Type: Article

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