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E. coli tripeptide production model reveals surprising complexity

The incredible complexity of a single-celled organism is revealed by a computer model of protein production

Aug 25, 2017

Creating a small protein in a simple organism is a breathtakingly complex undertaking, a new computer modeling has revealed. RIKEN scientists have mapped how the concentrations of more than 240 compounds vary with time when the tiny single-celled bacterium Escherichia coli makes a small protein...

  1. T. Matsuura, N. Tanimura, K. Hosoda, T. Yomo and Y. Shimizu: "Reaction dynamics analysis of a reconstituted Escherichia coli protein translation system by computational modeling" Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114 (8) E1336–E1344 (2017) doi: 10.1073/pnas.1615351114