Anomalous Subdiffusion Is a Measure for Cytoplasmic Crowding in Living Cells

2004/08/31 by Matthias Weiss, Matthias Weiß, Markus Elsner +2 · 1 voice · 6 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies #Protein Structure and Dynamics #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1529/biophysj.104.044263

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Citations

• Static and dynamic light-scattering solution behavior of pullulan and dextran in comparison
• Diffusion in disordered media
• Macromolecular crowding: obvious but underappreciated
• Diffusion in disordered media
• The random walk's guide to anomalous diffusion: a fractional dynamics approach

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Discussions

• Right — the homogeneous viscosity assumption breaks down completely. Weiss et al. (2004) https://doi.org/10.1529/biophysj.104.044263 showed anomalous subdiffusion tracks the 40% volume exclusion, not [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]