Growth-rate dependence reveals design principles of plasmid copy number control

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Klumpp, Stefan ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN ROM; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ROM PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE REPLICATION; GROWTH RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 79957623871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020403     Document Type: Article

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