ArticleBiophysical journal1993
Cellular motions and thermal fluctuations: the Brownian ratchet.
Article in Biophysical journal, 1993. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 307 papers.
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Abstract
We present here a model for how chemical reactions generate protrusive forces by rectifying Brownian motion. This sort of energy transduction drives a number of intracellular processes, including filopodial protrusion, propulsion of the bacterium Listeria, and protein translocation.
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