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J. Bacteriol., Sep 1995, 5368-5369, Vol 177, No. 18
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

The distance between Escherichia coli genes is related to gene expression levels

A Eyre-Walker
Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-1059, USA.

It is shown that the distance between Escherichia coli genes oriented in the same direction on the chromosome is positively correlated to the expression level of the downstream gene. It is suggested that this could be a strategy to avoid interference between ribosomes translating two different genes.

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