doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.11.010.
Cellular biophysics: bacterial endospore, membranes and random fluctuation
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Cellular biophysics: bacterial endospore, membranes and random fluctuation
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Purposeful motion of biological processes can be driven by Brownian motion of macromolecular complexes with one-sided binding biasing movement in one direction: a Brownian ratchet, now proposed to explain membrane motion during a phagocytosis-like process in bacteria.
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