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A coarse-grained view of E. coli.
Much like the "Ford-T assembly line," Escherichia coli can be thought of as a factory producing RNA polymerase, ribosomes, and other molecular machinery, all inside the crowded cytoplasm of the cell. In this simplified picture, genes and proteins of similar function are lumped together, resulting in an effective, coarse-grained representation of the cell (see Tadmor, Tlusty, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000038).
Image Credit: Genia Brodsky, Weizmann Institute of Science
Citation: (2008) PLoS Computational Biology Issue Image | Vol. 4(5) May 2008. PLoS Comput Biol 4(5): ev04.i05. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pcbi.v04.i05
Published: May 30, 2008
Copyright: © 2008 Tadmor, Tlusty. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Much like the "Ford-T assembly line," Escherichia coli can be thought of as a factory producing RNA polymerase, ribosomes, and other molecular machinery, all inside the crowded cytoplasm of the cell. In this simplified picture, genes and proteins of similar function are lumped together, resulting in an effective, coarse-grained representation of the cell (see Tadmor, Tlusty, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000038).
Image Credit: Genia Brodsky, Weizmann Institute of Science