Ribosome Dwell Times and the Protein Copy Number Distribution

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 627-635

  Gorissen, Mieke ^a   Vanderzande, Carlo ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Protein synthesis; Semi Markov processes; TASEP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866281144     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-012-0452-7     Document Type: Article

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