Figure 3

glnA promoter is sharply activated in the last generation of growth. (a) Promoter activity of glnA as a function of time at several levels of initial nitrogen with a time resolution of 8 min. Promoter activity was calculated by computing the rate of accumulation of GFP per unit time divided by the OD (dGFP/dt/OD). Each point in the graph represents the average promoter activity of 48 experimental replicas with standard error on the order of ~3% at each time-point (b) OD curves for the same experiment, with the position of the peak in promoter activity overlaid on the growth curve (open dots). (c) same as (a) where the x axis is generations instead of time.