| Range |
~375,000 Molecules/cell
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| Organism |
Bacteria Escherichia coli |
| Reference |
Mackie GA. RNase E: at the interface of bacterial RNA processing and decay. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2012 Dec 14 11(1):45-57. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro2930. p.51 box 2PubMed ID23241849
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| Primary Source |
Dong H, Nilsson L, Kurland CG. Co-variation of tRNA abundance and codon usage in Escherichia coli at different growth rates. J Mol Biol. 1996 Aug 2 260(5):649-63.PubMed ID8709146
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| Comments |
"In a culture of E.coli k12 that grows with a doubling time of ~30 min, there will be approximately 50,000 ribosomes, 375,000 tRNAs (primary source) (7.5 per ribosome) and perhaps a single to at most ten copies of each of the ~2,000 mRNAs per cell." Note-value wasn't located in primary source |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
108611 |