Condensation of actin filaments pushing against a barrier

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Tsekouras, Kostas ^a,b   Lacoste, David ^a   Mallick, Kirone ^c   Joanny, Jean François ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; FORCE-VELOCITY; MEAN FIELD APPROACH; MECHANICAL CONTACT; MOVABLE BARRIERS; SINGLE FILAMENTS; STALL FORCE; TWO-REGIME;

PROTEINS;

EID: 80155198610     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/10/103032     Document Type: Article

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