Cooperative RNA Polymerase Molecules Behavior on a Stochastic Sequence-Dependent Model for Transcription Elongation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Costa, Pedro Rafael ^a   Acencio, Marcio Luis ^a   Lemke, Ney ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DNA STRAND; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME MODIFICATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REACTION TIME; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84874302926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057328     Document Type: Article

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