568-Pos Board B348 A Sensor for Quantification of Macromolecular Crowding in Living Cells
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Excluded-Volume Effects in Living Cells**
Biomolecules evolve and function in densely crowded and highly heterogeneous cellular environments. Such conditions are often mimicked in the test tube by the addition of artificial macromolecular crowding agents. Still, it is unclear if such cosolutes indeed reflect the physicochemical properties of the cellular environment as the in-cell crowding effect has not yet been quantified. We have de...
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*Correspondence: Marcin Tabaka, Tomasz Kalwarczyk and Robert Holyst, Department of Soft Condensed Matter and Fluids, Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, Warsaw 01-224, Poland e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] We discuss a quantitative influence of macromolecular crowding on biological processes: motion, bimo...
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