Translational Bursting

Translational Bursting is the Main Source of Stochasticity in Prokaryotes

The amount of protein translated per strand of mRNA produced is characterized as a transcripts translational effciency or "burst parameter". Proteins are translated from mRNA in a pulsatile manner often described as "short bursting". Genes that are regulated by operons with low translational efficiency have a lower amount of noise than those exhibiting high translational efficiency. This is becuase a lower amount of mRNA in the cell means that the concentration of mRNA's be more susceptible to stochastic events such mRNA degredation.

Results

Figure 1

figure for how TB is better than FNE

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