How molecular motors work in the crowded environment of living cells: coexistence and efficiency of normal and anomalous transport.

Recent experiments reveal both passive subdiffusion of various nanoparticles and anomalous active transport of such particles by molecular motors in the molecularly crowded environment of living biological cells. Passive and active microrheology reveals that the origin of this anomalous dynamics is...

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Main Authors: Igor Goychuk, Vasyl O Kharchenko, Ralf Metzler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3953534?pdf=render