Min-protein oscillations in round bacteria

Physical Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 229-235

  Huang, Kerwyn Casey ^a,b,c   Wingreen, Ned S ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MIND PROTEIN; PROTEIN MINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOMETRY; GROWTH RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIFFUSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 27244437938     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3967/1/4/005     Document Type: Article

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