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stringent response

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stringent response
in bacterial cells, a response to stress when the cell wall does not have a sufficient pool of amino acids to maintain protein synthesis in which the synthesis of rRNAs and tRNAs is reduced by 20-fold, which suspends many of the cell's activities until conditions improve.
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