On the dependency of cellular protein levels on mRNA abundance

Y Liu, A Beyer, R Aebersold - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The question of how genomic information is expressed to determine phenotypes is of central
importance for basic and translational life science research and has been studied by …

The ecological roles of bacterial chemotaxis

JM Keegstra, F Carrara, R Stocker - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
How bacterial chemotaxis is performed is much better understood than why. Traditionally,
chemotaxis has been understood as a foraging strategy by which bacteria enhance their …

[BOOK][B] An introduction to systems biology: design principles of biological circuits

U Alon - 2019 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Praise for the first edition:… superb, beautifully written and organized work that takes an
engineering approach to systems biology. Alon provides nicely written appendices to …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying absolute protein synthesis rates reveals principles underlying allocation of cellular resources

GW Li, D Burkhardt, C Gross, JS Weissman - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Quantitative views of cellular functions require precise measures of rates of biomolecule
production, especially proteins—the direct effectors of biological processes. Here, we …

Network motifs: theory and experimental approaches

U Alon - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2007 - nature.com
Transcription regulation networks control the expression of genes. The transcription
networks of well-studied microorganisms appear to be made up of a small set of recurring …

The emergence of adaptive laboratory evolution as an efficient tool for biological discovery and industrial biotechnology

TE Sandberg, MJ Salazar, LL Weng, BO Palsson… - Metabolic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Harnessing the process of natural selection to obtain and understand new microbial
phenotypes has become increasingly possible due to advances in culturing techniques …

Interdependence of cell growth and gene expression: origins and consequences

M Scott, CW Gunderson, EM Mateescu, Z Zhang… - Science, 2010 - science.org
In bacteria, the rate of cell proliferation and the level of gene expression are intimately
intertwined. Elucidating these relations is important both for understanding the physiological …

Enzyme promiscuity: a mechanistic and evolutionary perspective

OKDS Tawfik - Annual review of biochemistry, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Many, if not most, enzymes can promiscuously catalyze reactions, or act on substrates, other
than those for which they evolved. Here, we discuss the structural, mechanistic, and …

Adaptive laboratory evolution–principles and applications for biotechnology

M Dragosits, D Mattanovich - Microbial cell factories, 2013 - Springer
Adaptive laboratory evolution is a frequent method in biological studies to gain insights into
the basic mechanisms of molecular evolution and adaptive changes that accumulate in …

Ecology and evolution of metabolic cross-feeding interactions in bacteria

G D'Souza, S Shitut, D Preussger, G Yousif… - Natural product …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Literature covered: early 2000s to late 2017 Bacteria frequently exchange metabolites with
other micro-and macro-organisms. In these often obligate cross-feeding interactions, primary …