What Makes Ribosome-Mediated Transcriptional Attenuation Sensitive to Amino Acid Limitation?
Figure 5
The Sensitivity Amplification aQk Is Plotted as a Function of the Rate of Translation of Regulatory Codons
The different curves correspond to different number of regulatory codons in a control region that has in total ten codons. #i/#j indicates i regulatory codons out of j codons in the control region. The rate of translation for non-regulatory codons is 15s−1. The RNAP transcribes 50 nt s−1 (q = 50s−1) and the total number of RNAP steps is 80 (n = 80). Insert: The sensitivity amplification aQk is plotted as in the main figure, but now the rate of transcription (q) is scaled such that Q = 0.01 for each point.