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ArticleMolecular systems biology2015

A growth-rate composition formula for the growth of E.coli on co-utilized carbon substrates.

Rutger Hermsen, Hiroyuki Okano, Conghui You, Nicole Werner, Terence Hwa

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Article in Molecular systems biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Rutger HermsenDepartment of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA TBB Group, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Hiroyuki OkanoDepartment of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Conghui YouDepartment of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Nicole WernerDepartment of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Terence HwaDepartment of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA hwa@ucsd.edu.

Funding

Quantitative Studies of Metabolic Switches in enteric bacteriaR01GM109069 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HWA, TERENCE · 2014 to 2022
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM109069NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM109069
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When bacteria are cultured in medium with multiple carbon substrates, they frequently consume these substrates simultaneously. Building on recent advances in the understanding of metabolic coordination exhibited by Escherichia coli cells through cAMP-Crp signaling, we show that this signaling system responds to the total carbon-uptake flux when substrates are co-utilized and derive a mathematical formula that accurately predicts the resulting growth rate, based only on the growth rates on individual substrates.

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AlgorithmsCarbonCatabolite RepressionCulture MediaCyclic AMPCyclic AMP Receptor ProteinEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsFeedback, PhysiologicalGenes, ReporterCarboncrp protein, E coliCulture MediaCyclic AMPCyclic AMP Receptor ProteinEscherichia coli Proteinsbacterial growthcatabolite repressionmetabolic coordinationmixed carbon‐substrate growth

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PMID25862745
PMCPMC4422558

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