Cyanobacteria Maintain Constant Protein Concentration despite Genome Copy-Number Variation

Summary: The cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 has multiple copies of its single chromosome, and the copy number varies in individual cells, providing an ideal system to study the effect of genome copy-number variation on cell size and gene expression. Using single-cell fluorescence im...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiao-yu Zheng, Erin K. O’Shea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-04-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112471730428X