Are DNA transcription factor proteins maxwellian demons?

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Published in Biophys J on May 02, 2008

Authors

Longhua Hu1, Alexander Y Grosberg, Robijn Bruinsma

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

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