Coarse-grained molecular simulation of diffusion and reaction kinetics in a crowded virtual cytoplasm

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3748-3759

  Ridgway, Douglas ^a   Broderick, Gordon ^a   Lopez Campistrous, Ana ^a   Ru'Aini, Melania ^a   Winter, Philip ^a   Hamilton, Matthew ^a   Boulanger, Pierre ^a   Kovalenko, Andriy ^b   Ellison, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; KINETICS;

BIOPOLYMERS; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

EID: 43849103490     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.116053     Document Type: Article

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