TY  - JOUR
A1  - Valleriani, Angelo
A1  - Ignatova, Zoya
A1  - Nagar, Apoorva
A1  - Lipowsky, Reinhard
T1  - Turnover of messenger RNA : polysome statistics beyond the steady state
N2  - The interplay between turnover or degradation and ribosome loading of messenger RNA (mRNA) is studied theoretically using a stochastic model that is motivated by recent experimental results. Random mRNA degradation affects the statistics of polysomes, i.e., the statistics of the number of ribosomes per mRNA as extracted from cells. Since ribosome loading of newly created mRNA chains requires some time to reach steady state, a fraction of the extracted mRNA/ ribosome complexes does not represent steady state conditions. As a consequence, the mean ribosome density obtained from the extracted complexes is found to be inversely proportional to the mRNA length. On the other hand, the ribosome density profile shows an exponential decrease along the mRNA for prokaryotes and becomes uniform in eukaryotic cells. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2010
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/89/58003
SN  - 0295-5075
ER  -