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Stress and survival of aging Escherichia coli rpoS colonies
Claude Saint-Ruf1, François Taddei, Ivan Matic
1Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire Evolutive et Médicale, INSERM U571, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Université Paris V, 75730 Cedex 15, France.
Genetics
|September 30, 2004
Abstract:
In Escherichia coli, the expression of the RpoS regulon is known to be crucial for survival in liquid cultures during stationary phase. By measuring cell viability and by transcriptome analysis, here we show that rpoS cells as well as wild-type cells survive when they form colonies on solid media.
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