Optimality and sub-optimality in a bacterial growth law
oleh: Benjamin D. Towbin, Yael Korem, Anat Bren, Shany Doron, Rotem Sorek, Uri Alon
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2017-01-01 |
Deskripsi
Organisms improve their fitness by adjusting their gene expression to the environment, for example bacteria scale the expression of metabolic enzymes near linearly to their growth rate. Here, the authors show that such linear scaling often maximizes growth rate, but that linear scaling is suboptimal under some conditions.