Adaptation for Protein Synthesis Efficiency in a Naturally Occurring Self-Regulating Operon

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Herman, Dorota ^a,b,c   Thomas, Christopher M ^a   Stekel, Dov J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPLICATION; HOST CELL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPERON; PLASMID; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSLATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84869771521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049678     Document Type: Article

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