Engineered ribosomal RNA operon copy-number variants of E. coli reveal the evolutionary trade-offs shaping rRNA operon number

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1783-1794

  Gyorfy, Zsuzsanna ^a   Draskovits, Gabor ^a   Vernyik, Viktor ^a   Blattner, Frederick F ^b   Gaal, Tamas ^c   Posfai, Gyorgy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^b Scarab Genomics LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; ECONOMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT REQUIREMENT; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RRN GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; OPERON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 84930336873     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv040     Document Type: Article

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