TLS Online TPP Program

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The overall reaction rate for the bacterial RNA polymerase can be as fast as 40–50 nucleotides/ second at 37°C for most transcripts; this is about the same as the rate of translation (15 amino acids/sec), but much slower than the rate of DNA replication (800 bp/sec).

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes #Eukaryotic transcription factors and machinery #Part B Pointers