Economy of Operon Formation: Cotranscription Minimizes Shortfall in Protein Complexes
ABSTRACT Genes of prokaryotes and Archaea are often organized in cotranscribed groups, or operons. In contrast, eukaryotic genes are generally transcribed independently. Here we show that there is a substantial economic gain for the cell to cotranscribe genes encoding protein complexes because it sy...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2010-10-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00177-10 |