Peptide chain elongation rate

Range 0.59 to 3.17 Table - link Amino acids per second per ribosome
Organism Bacteria Streptomyces coelicolor
Reference Karpinets TV, Greenwood DJ, Sams CE, Ammons JT. RNA:protein ratio of the unicellular organism as a characteristic of phosphorous and nitrogen stoichiometry and of the cellular requirement of ribosomes for protein synthesis. BMC Biol. 2006 Sep 5 4: 30. p.5/10 table 3PubMed ID16953894
Primary Source Cox RA. Quantitative relationships for specific growth rates and macromolecular compositions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) and Escherichia coli B/r: an integrative theoretical approach. Microbiology. 2004 May150(Pt 5):1413-26.PubMed ID15133103
Entered by Uri M
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