Stochasticity in Protein Levels Drives Colinearity of Gene Order in Metabolic Operons of Escherichia coli
Figure 3
The relative advantage of colinearity decreases with elapsed time after operon induction according to deterministic simulations of the model.
Bars represent the relative excess of end product synthesized by a colinear operon (ABCD) compared to an operon with anti-colinear arrangement (DCBA). The operon is induced at t = 0. Cell generation time is set to 60 min. See Table S4 for simulation results with different parameter values.