The Origins of Time-Delay in Template Biopolymerization Processes
Figure 2
Ribosome density for given kinetic rate constants and ribosome flux as a function of density.
(A) The loci of dimensionless termination () and initiation (
) rate constants that yield a steady state solution with a given density,
. (B) Ribosome flux (
) for steady state solutions as a function of ribosome density. For the two curves shown,
, the initiation rate constant is approximately in the ranges
and
, respectively. The remaining parameter values are
,
,
,
and
for
.