Universal aspects of the chemomechanical coupling for molecular motors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 4401-4404

  Lipowsky, Reinhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CONFORMATIONS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENZYME KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RATE CONSTANTS;

CHEMOMECHANICAL COUPLING; CYTOSKELETAL MOTOR; DIMERIC KINESIN; ENZYMATIC MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR MOTOR;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0034310584     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4401     Document Type: Article

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