Inter-filament attractions narrow the length distribution of actin filaments

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 464-470

  Biron, D ^a,b   Moses, E ^a   Borukhov, I ^a,c   Safran, S A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Harvard University ^*  (Israel)

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EID: 31944448495     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2005-10410-x     Document Type: Article

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