Economy of operon formation: Cotranscription minimizes shortfall in protein complexes

mBio

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Sneppen, Kim ^a   Pedersen, Steen ^a,b   Krishna, Sandeep ^a,c   Dodd, Ian ^a,d   Semsey, Szabolcs ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RIBOSOME; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSLATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79952125361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00177-10     Document Type: Article

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