dc.contributor.author | Derr, Julien | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Rutenberg, Andrew D. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-19T17:25:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-19T17:25:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Derr, Julien, and Andrew D. Rutenberg. 2011. "Monodisperse domains by proteolytic control of the coarsening instability." Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 84(1). | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 15393755 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.011928 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/24838 | |
dc.description.abstract | The coarsening instability typically disrupts steady-state cluster-size distributions. We show that degradation coupled to the cluster size, such as arising from biological proteolysis, leads to a fixed-point cluster size. Stochastic evaporative and condensative fluxes determine the width of the fixed-point size distribution. At the fixed point, we show how the peak size and width depend on number, interactions, and proteolytic rate. This proteolytic size-control mechanism is consistent with the phenomenology of pseudopilus length control in the general secretion pathway of bacteria. 2011 American Physical Society. | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics | en_US |
dc.subject | Size distribution | en_US |
dc.title | Monodisperse domains by proteolytic control of the coarsening instability | en_US |
dc.type | article | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 84 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.startpage | | en_US |