Time for one repressor to search for one specific binding site

Range <360 sec
Organism Bacteria Escherichia coli
Reference Li GW, Xie XS. Central dogma at the single-molecule level in living cells. Nature. 2011 Jul 20 475(7356):308-15. doi: 10.1038/nature10315. p.313 cation of fig.5d and p.310 right column bottom paragraphPubMed ID21776076
Primary Source Elf J, Li GW, Xie XS. Probing transcription factor dynamics at the single-molecule level in a living cell. Science. 2007 May 25 316(5828):1191-4.PubMed ID17525339
Comments "It takes less than 360 s for one repressor to search for one specific binding site (primary source)."
Entered by Uri M
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