Elasticity of the rod-shaped gram-negative eubacteria

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 5246-5249

  Boulbitch, A ^a   Quinn, B ^b   Pink, D ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; EUBACTERIUM;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; ELASTICITY; EUBACTERIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; GEOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE;

BACTERIAL TURGOR PRESSURE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN NETWORK; ROD-SHAPED GRAM-NEGATIVE EUBACTERIA; ZIGZAG GEOMETRY;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0034351068     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5246     Document Type: Article

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