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Receptor-receptor coupling in bacterial chemotaxis: evidence for strongly coupled clusters

Monica L Skoge1, Robert G Endres, Ned S Wingreen

  • 1Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Biophysical Journal
|March 28, 2006
PubMed

Keywords:
chemotaxis signalingbacterial receptor clustersfluorescence resonance energy transferreceptor network models

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