Thermodynamic and kinetic modeling of transcriptional pausing
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Thermodynamic and kinetic modeling of transcriptional pausing.
We present a statistical mechanics approach for the prediction of backtracked pauses in bacterial transcription elongation derived from structural models of the transcription elongation complex (EC). Our algorithm is based on the thermodynamic stability of the EC along the DNA template calculated from the sequence-dependent free energy of DNA-DNA, DNA-RNA, and RNA-RNA base pairing associated wi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0600508103