Resolving Single Kinesin Motors in Motion by Atomic Force Microscopy
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Carolina Carrasco, Iwan A. T. Schaap, Pedro J. de Pablo, Christoph f. Schmidt 1 Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada C-III, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain 2 National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London, NW7 1AA, United Kingdom 3 Physikalisches Institut, Fakultät für Physik, Georg-August-Universität, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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تاریخ انتشار 2007