Total number of mRNA (at any given time)

Value 9.8 mRNA molecules
Organism Bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Reference Maier T, Schmidt A, Güell M, Kühner S, Gavin AC, Aebersold R, Serrano L. Quantification of mRNA and protein and integration with protein turnover in a bacterium. Mol Syst Biol. 2011 Jul 19 7: 511. doi: 10.1038/msb.2011.38. p.5 left column bottom paragraphPubMed ID21772259
Method "...[researchers] quantified individual average mRNA amounts per cell by spiking known amounts of reference RNAs into mRNA samples analysed by tiling arrays (Supplementary Figure S10)."
Comments "[Researchers] determined a cellular average of 9.8 mRNA molecules at any given time."
Entered by Uri M
ID 108349