A possible mechanism for self-coordination of bidirectional traffic across nuclear pores

Physical Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Kapon, Ruti ^a   Topchik, Alon ^a   Mukamel, David ^a   Reich, Ziv ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR PORE; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PORE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 51049120110     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/5/3/036001     Document Type: Article

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