Controlled Measurement and Comparative Analysis of Cellular Components in E. coli Reveals Broad Regulatory Changes in Response to Glucose Starvation

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Houser, John R ^a   Barnhart, Craig ^a   Boutz, Daniel R ^a   Carroll, Sean M ^b   Dasgupta, Aurko ^a   Michener, Joshua K ^b   Needham, Brittany D ^a   Papoulas, Ophelia ^a   Sridhara, Viswanadham ^a   Sydykova, Dariya K ^a   Marx, Christopher J ^b,c   Trent, M Stephen ^a,d   Barrick, Jeffrey E ^a   Marcotte, Edward M ^a   Wilke, Claus O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM; NUTRIENTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA;

CELLULAR COMPONENTS; CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY; CENTRAL METABOLISMS; COMPARATIVE ANALYZES; E. COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI GROWTHS; GENOMICS; LIPID MODIFICATIONS; REGULATORY CHANGE; TIME COURSE;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; GLUCOSE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY YIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEOMICS; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ALGORITHM; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84940780039     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004400     Document Type: Article

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