| Range |
~100 monomers/burst
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| Organism |
Bacteria Escherichia coli |
| Reference |
Teng SW. et al., Measurement of the copy number of the master quorum-sensing regulator of a bacterial cell. Biophys J. 2010 May 19 98(9):2024-31. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.01.031. p.2030 right column top paragraphPubMed ID20441767
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| Primary Source |
Choi, P. J. et al., 2008. A stochastic single-molecule event triggers phenotype switching of a bacterial cell. Science. 322: 442–446.PubMed ID18927393
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| Method |
Primary source abstract: "By monitoring fluorescently labeled lactose permease with single-molecule sensitivity, [researchers] investigated the molecular mechanism of how an Escherichia coli cell with the lac operon switches from one phenotype to another." |
| Comments |
"In turn, each mRNA produces ~50 LuxR dimers before it is degraded. This is a rather high translation rate. However, it is comparable with the large burst size (~100 monomers) measured in E. coli when the repressors completely dissociate from the Lac operon (primary source)." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
111012 |