Molecular motors as cargo transporters in the cell-The good, the bad and the ugly

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 372, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 65-69

  Mallik, Roop ^a,b   Gross, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CARGO TRANSPORTERS; CELLULAR CARGO; CYTOPLASMIC DYNEIN; MOLECULAR MOTORS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 33748947647     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.05.017     Document Type: Article

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