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The metabolic stability of ribosomal protein

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Measurements of the metabolic stability of ribosomal proteins of exponentially growing Escherichia coli B/r showed that their rate of degradation to free amino acids is zero to within limits of the experimental accuracy of ± 0.7% per hour or ± 0.5% per doubling period.

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  1. Virus Laboratory and the Group in Biophysics and Medical Physics, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, California

    Robert Schleif

  2. Biological Laboratories Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Robert Schleif

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Schleif, R. The metabolic stability of ribosomal protein. Molec. Gen. Genet. 100, 252–255 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381820

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