The classical attenuation regulation of gene expression in bacteria is considered. We propose to represent the secondary RNA structure in the leader region of a gene or an operon by a term, and we give a probabilistic term rewriting system modeling the whole process of such a regulation.
@article{arxiv.0706.2126,
title = {Attenuation Regulation as a Term Rewriting System},
author = {Eugene Asarin and Thierry Cachat and Alexander Seliverstov and Tayssir Touili and Vassily Lyubetsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.2126},
year = {2007}
}