Geometry sensing by self-organized protein patterns

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 15283-15288

  Schweizer, Jakob ^a   Loose, Martin ^a,b   Bonny, Mike ^c   Kruse, Karsten ^c   Mon̈ch, Ingolf ^d   Schwille, Petra ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

In vitro reconstitution; Microstructures; Min oscillations; Spontaneous protein waves; Supported lipid bilayers

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CYTOKINESIS; GEOMETRY; GEOMETRY SENSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOKINESIS; DIFFUSION; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPID BILAYERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84866551286     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206953109     Document Type: Article

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