McCabe Barbara C, Gollnick Paul
Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2004 Aug;186(15):5157-9. doi: 10.1128/JB.186.15.5157-5159.2004.
Expression of the Bacillus subtilis trp genes is negatively regulated by an 11-subunit trp RNA-binding attenuation protein (TRAP), which is activated to bind RNA by binding l-tryptophan. We used Western blotting to estimate that there are 200 to 400 TRAP 11-mer molecules per cell in cells grown in either minimal or rich medium.