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p.4 right column bottom paragraph:"The rate of production of DsRed monomers, P, is: d[P]/dt=k[mRNA]- µ[P] where k is the translation rate per mRNA molecule. At steady state, k= µ[P]/[mRNA]. [Investigators] find k=6.7 DsRed monomers per mRNA transcript per minute. The dsRed gene codes for 220 amino acids, and if [investigators] assume on average three ribosomes loaded per mRNA message (BNID 111690), [they] find that the average translation rate for an individual ribosome is about eight amino acids per second. This rate is consistent with the translation rates of previous studies (refs 23,24)." |