Pausing and Backtracking in Transcription Under Dense Traffic Conditions

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1252-1267

  Klumpp, Stefan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backtracking; Cooperativity; Exclusion process; Pausing; RNA polymerase; Traffic models; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954632657     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-011-0120-3     Document Type: Article

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