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Gene Expression Flow of the TOL Catabolic Plasmid of Pseudomonas putida mt-2
Juhyun Kim,
Angel Goñi-Moreno,
Víctor de Lorenzo
Affiliations
Juhyun Kim
Systems Biology Department, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
Angel Goñi-Moreno
Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP, UPM-INIA), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Campus de Montegancedo-UPM, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
The transfer of information between DNA, RNA, and proteins in a bacterium is often compared to the decoding of a piece of software in a computer. However, the tridimensional layout and the relational logic of the cognate biological hardware, i.e., the nucleoid, the RNA polymerase, and the ribosomes, are habitually taken for granted.
