Shifts in growth strategies reflect tradeoffs in cellular economics

Abstract The growth rate‐dependent regulation of cell size, ribosomal content, and metabolic efficiency follows a common pattern in unicellular organisms: with increasing growth rates, cell size and ribosomal content increase and a shift to energetically inefficient metabolism takes place. The latte...

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Main Authors: Douwe Molenaar, Rogier van Berlo, Dick de Ridder, Bas Teusink
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2009-11-01
Series:Molecular Systems Biology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/msb.2009.82
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