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TwisTranscripT: Stochastic simulation of the transcription-supercoiling coupling

  • Bilal El Houdaigui
  • , Sam Meyer

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Abstract

Transcription and DNA supercoiling are involved in a complex, dynamical and non-linear coupling that results from the basal interaction between DNA and RNA polymerase. We present the first software to simulate this coupling, applicable to a wide range of bacterial organisms. TwisTranscripT allows quantifying its contribution in global transcriptional regulation, and provides a mechanistic basis for the widely observed, evolutionarily conserved and currently unexplained co-regulation of adjacent operons that might play an important role in genome evolution.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3899-3901
Number of pages3
JournalBioinformatics
Volume36
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 31 2020
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mathematics

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