Several Issues in Modeling Molecular Motors
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Several Issues in Modeling Molecular Motors
Protein motors play a central role in many cell functions. Understanding the operating principles of molecular motors is crucial to comprehending intracellular protein transport and cell motility. Due to the small size and the negligible inertia of molecular motors, the motor motion is damped by high viscous friction and is subject to large thermal excitations form the surrounding fluid environ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1546-1955,1546-1963
DOI: 10.1166/jctn.2008.1202