Figure 7
From: Quasi-cellular systems: stochastic simulation analysis at nanoscale range
Transcription/translation process in the PS. (t1) The ribosome cannot incorporate amino acids and subsequently move forward if the polymerase (RNAP) has not yet produced a sufficiently long RNA sequence; (t2) as long as transcription continues, new nucleotides are incorporated, the RNA molecule is elongated, and the ribosome can continue the translation process and progress along the RNA strand, while a new polymerase bind to DNA and begins to produce a new RNA molecule, by keeping a certain distance from the other elongating polymerase due to steric repulsions.