Crowding and confinement effects on protein diffusion in vivo

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 6115-6123

  Konopka, Michael C ^a   Shkel, Irina A ^a   Cayley, Scott ^a   Record, M Thomas ^a   Weisshaar, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; POTASSIUM ION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLEACHING; CELL CYCLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLASMOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BUFFERS; CULTURE MEDIA; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; OSMOSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33749018832     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01982-05     Document Type: Article

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