Self-Organization in Living Cells: Networks of Protein Machines and Nonequilibrium Soft Matter |
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Authors: | AS Mikhailov B Hess |
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Institution: | (1) Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany;(2) Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie, Otto-Hahn-Str. 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany |
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Abstract: | Microscopic self-organization phenomena inside a living cell should not represent merely a reduced copy of self-organization in macroscopic systems. A cell is populated by active protein machines that communicate via small molecules diffusing through the cytoplasm. Mutual synchronization of machine cycles can spontaneously develop in such networks – an effect which is similar to coherent laser generation. On the other hand, an interplay between reactions, diffusion and phase transitions in biological soft matter may lead to the formation of stationary or traveling nonequilibrium nanoscale structures. |
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Keywords: | conformational relaxation diffusion enzymes microvolumes nonequilibrium nanostructures phase transitions synchronization |
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