Ribosome biogenesis in replicating cells: Integration of experiment and theory.

ABSTRACT: Ribosomes-the primary macromolecular machines responsible for translating the genetic code into proteins-are complexes of precisely folded RNA and proteins. The ways in which their production and assembly are managed by the living cell is of deep biological importance. Here we extend a recent spatially resolved whole-cell model of ribosome biogenesis in a fixed volume [Earnest et al., Biophys J 2015, 109, 1117-1135] to include the effects of growth, DNA replication, and cell division. All biological processes are described in terms of reaction-diffusion master equations and solved stochastically using the Lattice Microbes simulation software. In order to determine the replication parameters, we construct and analyze a series of Escherichia coli strains with fluorescently labeled genes dist

SUBMITTER: Earnest TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4958520 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature