Bacterial growth rate depends on the number of active ribosomes and translation elongation rate. Matamouros et al. show that Corynebacterium glutamicum, a gram-positive model species, uses a different strategy than Escherichia coli during slow growth by strongly reducing the translation elongation rate while keeping a high number of active ribosomes.
- Susana Matamouros
- Thomas Gensch
- Michael Bott
