Exploring the molecular origin of the high selectivity of multisubunit RNA polymerases by stochastic kinetic models

Interdisciplinary Sciences – Computational Life Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-98

  Zhu, Rui ^a   de la Lande, Aurélien ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a   Salahub, Dennis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

gene transcription; Gillespie algorithm; multisubunit RNA polymerase; nucleotide addition; stochastic kinetics

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KINETICS; PROTEIN MOTIF; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77956632540     PISSN: 19132751     EISSN: 18671462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12539-009-0031-3     Document Type: Article

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