Physical model of protein cluster positioning in growing bacteria

Vaibhav Wasnik1, Hui Wang1, Ned S Wingreen2

  • 1Department of Physics, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610.

New Journal of Physics
|April 10, 2018
PubMed

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