Chemophoresis as a driving force for intracellular organization: Theory and application to plasmid partitioning

Biophysics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages 77-88

  Sugawara, Takeshi ^a   Kaneko, Kunihiko ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical adsorption; Chemical gradient; Plasmid partitioning; Thermodynamic force

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455262690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13492942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2142/biophysics.7.77     Document Type: Article

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