Altering the speed of gene regulation to improve industrial yeast strains KU Leuven
Micro-organisms commonly live in an environment with dynamic nutrient availability. This makes it crucial for an organism’s fitness to appropriately respond to environmental changes, since each metabolic response requires an investment of energy, time and precious building blocks. In many cases, such metabolic rewiring is accompanied by a period of delayed growth, often referred to as a lag phase. The length of this lag phase can vary ...