Why the phosphotransferase system of Escherichia coli escapes diffusion limitation

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 612-622

  Francke, Christof ^a,b   Postma, Pieter W ^a   Westerhoff, Hans V ^a,b,c   Blom, Joke G ^d   Peletier, Mark A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c STELLENBOSCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (South Africa)

^d CWI   (Netherlands)

^e EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037973668     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74505-6     Document Type: Article

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