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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

The alarmones (p)ppGpp directly regulate translation initiation during entry into quiescence.

Simon Diez, Jaewook Ryu, Kelvin Caban, Ruben L Gonzalez, Jonathan Dworkin

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Simon DiezDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.
Jaewook RyuDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.
Kelvin CabanDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.ORCID 0000-0001-6660-8877
Ruben L GonzalezDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.ORCID 0000-0002-1344-5581
Jonathan DworkinDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032; jonathan.dworkin@columbia.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8205-6918

Funding

The Structural Dynamics of Translation InitiationR01GM084288 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI GONZALEZ, RUBEN L · 2009 to 2022
$4.4M
Columbia University Graduate Training Program in Microbiology and ImmunologyT32AI106711 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Nicholas Arpaia, Uttiya Basu · 2014 to 2026
$2.1M
Structure and Mechanism of Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting in SARS coronavirusR01AI104711 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI D'SOUZA, VICTORIA MANUEL · 2013 to 2017
$1.9M
Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Bacteria by Ser/Thr PhosphorylationR01GM114213 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DWORKIN, JONATHAN · 2015 to 2018
$1.4M
The structural dynamics of translation elongation and its regulationR01GM119386 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI GONZALEZ, RUBEN L · 2016 to 2019
$1.3M
Physiological responses to cell wall-active antibiotics in a Gram-positive bacteriumR21AI135427 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DWORKIN, JONATHAN · 2018 to 2019
$440k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many bacteria exist in a state of metabolic quiescence where energy consumption must be minimized so as to maximize available resources over a potentially extended period of time. As protein synthesis is the most energy intensive metabolic process in a bacterial cell, it would be an appropriate target for down-regulation during the transition from growth to quiescence. We observe that when

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Peptide Chain Initiation, TranslationalAllosteric RegulationBacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsCell DivisionGuanosine PentaphosphateGuanosine TetraphosphateProkaryotic Initiation Factor-2Bacterial ProteinsGuanosine PentaphosphateGuanosine TetraphosphateProkaryotic Initiation Factor-2dormancyIF2protein synthesistranslational regulation

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PMID32576694
PMCPMC7354938

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