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Global half-lives of mRNA in laboratory-grown E. coli cells

Range	~5 (1 - 8) min
Organism	Bacteria Escherichia coli
Reference	Moran MA et al., Sizing up metatranscriptomics. ISME J. 2013 Feb7(2):237-43. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2012.94. p.238 left columnPubMed ID22931831
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Comments	P.238 left column:"Various measures of global half-lives of mRNA in laboratory-grown E. coli cells converge at about 5 min (range: ~1–8 min primary sources)."
Entered by	Uri M
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