A Mechanistic Model for Cooperative Behavior of Co-transcribing RNA Polymerases
Fig 3
As a function of increasing initiation rates determined by α, the pause and collision results are presented for the ETAM model (blue triangles) and the TASEP model (magenta).
The number of pauses and collisions are computed as the average number per RNAP. The average number of pauses per RNAP is presented in (A) with the average pause duration in (B). Similarly the average number of collision per RNAP is given in (C) with the average collision duration in (D). RNAPs in the ETAM model experience significantly fewer collisions and shorter pause durations than their TASEP counterparts.