Protein flexibility and the correlation ratchet

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 776-791

  Elston, Timothy C ^a   You, Dwight ^b   Peskin, Charles S ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomolecular motors; Correlation ratchet; Diffusion equation; Protein flexibility; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROTEINS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BIOMOLECULAR MOTORS; CORRELATION RATCHET; DIFFUSION EQUATION; PROTEIN FLEXIBILITY;

CORRELATION METHODS;

EID: 0034912149     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/s0036139999353942     Document Type: Article

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