Number of translation bursts of beta-galactosidase per cell cycle

Value 0.16 unitless
Organism Bacteria Escherichia coli
Reference X. Sunney Xie, Paul J. Choi, Gene-Wei Li, Nam Ki Lee, and Giuseppe Lia, 'Single-Molecule Approach to Molecular Biology in Living Bacterial Cells', Annu. Rev. Biophys. 2008. 37:p.434PubMed ID18573089
Primary Source Cai L, Friedman N, Xie XS. 2006. Stochastic protein expression in individual cells at the single molecule level. Nature 440:358–62PubMed ID16541077
Method enzyme ampli?cation in micro?uidics under repressed conditions. single cell assay in vivo
Comments the burst size and frequency can be either determined directly from real-time monitoring of protein production or extracted from a measurement of the steady-state copy number distribution in a population of cells
Entered by Uri M
ID 102047