Excluded volume effects in the physics of chemoreception

F.W. Wiegel

doi:10.1142/S0217984991001908

Excluded volume effects in the physics of chemoreception

F.W. Wiegel

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We derive an explicit formula for the rate with which a spherical cell with a large number of receptors in its outer membrane captures ligands which have a non-vanishing excluded volume. These corrections to the Berg-Purcell formula, which neglects excluded volume, turn out to be quite small in most cases of practical interest.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1599-1601
Number of pages	2
Journal	Modern physics letters. B
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984991001908
Publication status	Published - 1992

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