A Comparison of the Costs and Benefits of Bacterial Gene Expression.

To study how a bacterium allocates its resources, we compared the costs and benefits of most (86%) of the proteins in Escherichia coli K-12 during growth in minimal glucose medium. The cost or investment in each protein was estimated from ribosomal profiling data, and the benefit of each protein was...

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Main Authors: Morgan N Price, Kelly M Wetmore, Adam M Deutschbauer, Adam P Arkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5053530?pdf=render