70% efficiency of bistate molecular machines explained by information theory, high dimensional geometry and evolutionary convergence

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 5995-6006

  Schneider, Thomas D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RHODOPSIN;

ARTICLE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; ISOTHERM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION;

EVOLUTION; INFORMATION THEORY; RHODOPSIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78049450082     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq389     Document Type: Article

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