Selective disadvantage of non-functional protein synthesis inEscherichia coli
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- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Molecular Evolution
- Vol. 8 (4) , 317-328
Abstract
Comparison of growth rates of isogenic strains that synthesize varying levels ofβ-galactosidase during continuous culture on non-inducing medium indicates that synthesis of low levels of non-functional protein has a small but possibly significant effect upon growth rate.Keywords
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