Protein gradients in single cells induced by their coupling to “morphogen”-like diffusion
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Protein gradients in single cells induced by"morphogen"-like diffusion
One of the many ways cells transmit information within their volume is through steady spatial gradients of different proteins. However, the mechanism through which such single-cell gradients form is not yet fully understood. We first demonstrate that one of the models for gradient formation, based on differential diffusion, is limited to proteins with large ratios of their diffusion constants o...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.5021086