spotter: a single-nucleotide resolution stochastic simulation model of supercoiling-mediated transcription and translation in prokaryotes

WC Hacker, AH Elcock - Nucleic acids research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Stochastic simulation models have played an important role in efforts to understand the
mechanistic basis of prokaryotic transcription and translation. Despite the fundamental …

Protein Translation Can Fluidize Bacterial Cytoplasm

P Bera, W Abdul, S Bakshi, J Mondal - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The cytoplasm of bacterial cells is densely packed with highly polydisperse macromolecules
that exhibit glassy dynamics. Research has revealed that metabolic activities in living cells …

Transcription-translation coupling: Traveling a road under construction

S Klumpp - Biophysical Journal, 2023 - cell.com
The genetic information stored in DNA is read out in two steps: transcription and translation.
The two steps are carried out by two large molecular machines, RNA polymerases (RNAPs) …