Overflow metabolism in Escherichia coli results from efficient proteome allocation

Nature

Volumn 528, Issue 7580, 2015, Pages 99-104

  Basan, Markus ^a,b   Hui, Sheng ^a   Okano, Hiroyuki ^a   Zhang, Zhongge ^a   Shen, Yang ^a   Williamson, James R ^c   Hwa, Terence ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME; ACETIC ACID; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; OXYGEN;

BIOMASS; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; FECAL COLIFORM; FERMENTATION; GROWTH; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROTEIN; PROTEOMICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOGENESIS; BIOMASS; BREATHING; COST; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; FUNGUS; MAMMAL CELL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL RESPIRATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PROTEOMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

ACETIC ACID; BIOMASS; CELL RESPIRATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FERMENTATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; OXYGEN; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84947583295     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature15765     Document Type: Article

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