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Ratios between Contents of DNA, RNA and Protein in Different Micro-organisms as a Function of Maximal Growth Rate

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THE growth medium determines the macromolecular composition as well as the growth rate (number of doublings per hour) of micro-organisms in the steady state of growth. For a given micro-organism the ratios of RNA : protein and RNA : DNA are linear functions of the growth rate, whereas the ratio of DNA : protein is virtually independent of the rate of growth1–4. All these studies involved one micro-organism studied at different growth rates.

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LEICK, V. Ratios between Contents of DNA, RNA and Protein in Different Micro-organisms as a Function of Maximal Growth Rate. Nature 217, 1153–1155 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2171153a0

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