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SUBMITTER: Aiyar SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC134863 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aiyar Sarah E SE Gaal Tamas T Gourse Richard L RL
Journal of bacteriology 20020301 5
The bacterium Vibrio natriegens can double with a generation time of less than 10 min (R. G. Eagon, J. Bacteriol. 83:736-737, 1962), a growth rate that requires an extremely high rate of protein synthesis. We show here that V. natriegens' high potential for protein synthesis results from an increase in ribosome numbers with increasing growth rate, as has been found for other bacteria. We show that V. natriegens contains a large number of rRNA operons, and its rRNA promoters are extremely strong. ...[more]