Dynamics of an idealized model of microtubule growth and catastrophe

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Antal, T ^a   Krapivsky, P L ^b   Redner, S ^b   Mailman, M ^c   Chakraborty, B ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH KINETICS; HYDROLYSIS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; REACTION KINETICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE (GTP); MICROTUBULE; POWER-LAW LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; ZERO LENGTH;

PROTEINS;

EID: 35248883959     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041907     Document Type: Article

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