How would one begin to calculate the availability of nucleotides to an enzyme ? What units would be usedlike a polymerase ?
I imagine an answer in units like nucleotides per second per enzyme, but I'm also imagining an answer that is not the same as processivity.
An experiment that selectively highlights all entriesa simple rate of correctreaction. k_on calculations and incorrect nucleotides into the binding site of the polymerase would yield such an answerk_off do not offer mechanistic explanation.
I'd like to know, specifically, if there is a theoretical approach to this question.: how does a polymerase reject an incorrect nucleotide?