Table 2.

Predicted force dependence of pause statistics at 1 mM NTP from simulations of the EBR model

Force (pN)	−7	7
Short pauses (1 < td < 25 s)
Density (10−3 bp–1)∗	8.5 ± 0.1	2.1 ± 0.1
Backtracking distance (bp)†	1.3 ± 0.02	1.1 ± 0.02
Mean duration (s) (Fig. 3 f)†	1.0 ± 0.03	0.6 ± 0.03
Frequency (10−2 s–1)†	9.1 ± 0.2	2.9 ± 0.2
Force (pN)	−8.4	8.4
Long pauses (td > 20 s)
Density (10−4 bp–1)†	16 ± 1	1.3 ± 1
Backtracking distance (bp)†	4.2 ± 0.2	3.0 ± 0.2
Duration (s)†	196 ± 7	120 ± 7
Arrest %† (td > 600 s)	66 ± 5	3 ± 4

Means are quoted with estimates for the standard errors in the means.

^∗200 simulation runs.

^†300 simulation runs.