Physical and technical parameters determining the functioning of a kinesin-based cell-free motor system

Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 52-56

  Stracke, Roland ^a   Böhm, Konrad J ^a   Burgold, Jörg ^b   Schacht, Hans Joachim ^b   Unger, Eberhard ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

KINESIN;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0342906520     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/11/2/302     Document Type: Article

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