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A Theoretical Lower Bound for Selection on the Expression Levels of Proteins

We use simple models of the costs and benefits of microbial gene expression to show that changing a protein’s expression away from its optimum by 2-fold should reduce fitness by at least [Formula: see text] , where P is the fraction the cell’s protein that the gene accounts for. As microbial genes a...

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Autores principales: Price, Morgan N., Arkin, Adam P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27289091
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw126