Shifting sugars and shifting paradigms.
No organism lives in a constant environment. Based on classical studies in molecular biology, many have viewed microbes as following strict rules for shifting their metabolic activities when prevailing conditions change. For example, students learn that the bacterium Escherichia coli makes proteins...
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-02-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4331491?pdf=render |