Modeling promoter search by E. coli RNA polymerase: One-dimensional diffusion in a sequence-dependent energy landscape

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 628-634

  Weindl, Johanna ^a   Dawy, Zaher ^b   Hanus, Pavol ^a   Zech, Juergen ^c   Mueller, Jakob C ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binding energy; Facilitated target location; Protein DNA interaction; Random walk; Sliding model

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DNA; MODELING; PROTEIN; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA HELIX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIFFUSION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 67649982898     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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