Studying protein dynamics in living cells

J Lippincott-Schwartz, E Snapp… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2001 - nature.com
Since the advent of the green fluorescent protein, the subcellular localization, mobility,
transport routes and binding interactions of proteins can be studied in living cells. Live cell …

Physicochemical properties of cells and their effects on intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs)

FX Theillet, A Binolfi, T Frembgen-Kesner… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
It has long been axiomatic that a protein's structure determines its function. Intrinsically
disordered proteins (IDPs) and disordered protein regions (IDRs) defy this structure …

Models of anomalous diffusion in crowded environments

IM Sokolov - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
A particle's motion in crowded environments often exhibits anomalous diffusion, whose
nature depends on the situation at hand and is formalized within different physical models …

Solute and macromolecule diffusion in cellular aqueous compartments

AS Verkman - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2002 - cell.com
Diffusion of solutes and macromolecules in aqueous cellular compartments is required for
numerous cellular processes including metabolism, second messenger signaling and …

FRAP analysis of binding: proper and fitting

BL Sprague, JG McNally - Trends in cell biology, 2005 - cell.com
Dynamic molecular interactions are fundamental to all cellular processes. In vivo analyses of
these interactions are frequently done using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching …

Getting around the cell: physical transport in the intracellular world

SS Mogre, AI Brown, EF Koslover - Physical Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Eukaryotic cells face the challenging task of transporting a variety of particles through the
complex intracellular milieu in order to deliver, distribute, and mix the many components that …

Diffusion of green fluorescent protein in the aqueous-phase lumen of endoplasmic reticulum

MJ Dayel, EFY Hom, AS Verkman - Biophysical journal, 1999 - cell.com
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the major compartment for the processing and quality
control of newly synthesized proteins. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) was used as a …

Reading the patterns in living cells —the physics of ca2+ signaling

M Falcke - Advances in physics, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Ca2+ is one of the most important messengers. It transmits signals inside living cells and
takes part in intercellular coordination. The dynamics of the Ca2+ concentration shows a …

Mitochondrial morphofunction in mammalian cells

EP Bulthuis, MJW Adjobo-Hermans… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Significance: In addition to their classical role in cellular ATP production, mitochondria are of
key relevance in various (patho) physiological mechanisms including second messenger …

Photobleaching GFP reveals protein dynamics inside live cells

J White, E Stelzer - Trends in cell biology, 1999 - cell.com
Cell biologists have used photobleaching to investigate the lateral mobility of fluorophores
on the cell surface since the 1970s. Fusions of green fluorescent protein (GFP) to specific …