How bacteria keep proteins moving.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 29231807.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.33590 and PMC identifier 5726849.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Bacteria contain large numbers of negatively-charged proteins to avoid the electrostatic interactions with ribosomes that would dramatically reduce protein diffusion.
Medical subject headings
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Ribosomes
- Static Electricity