Ribosome Provisioning Activates a Bistable Switch Coupled to Fast Exit from Stationary Phase

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 1056-1070

  Remigi, Philippe ^a,b   Ferguson, Gayle C ^a   McConnell, Ellen ^c   De Monte, Silvia ^c,d   Rogers, David W ^c   Rainey, Paul B ^a,c,e  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Experimental evolution; genetics.; microbiology; phenotypic heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CSRA PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PYRIMIDINE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RSMA1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; COLANIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SWITCHING; GENETICS; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, SWITCH; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYSACCHARIDES; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 85063131471     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz041     Document Type: Article

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