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SUBMITTER: Dieteren CE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3102363 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110509 21
Intracellular chemical reactions generally constitute reaction-diffusion systems located inside nanostructured compartments like the cytosol, nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi, and mitochondrion. Understanding the properties of such systems requires quantitative information about solute diffusion. Here we present a novel approach that allows determination of the solvent-dependent solute diffusion constant (D(solvent)) inside cell compartments with an experimentally quantifiable nanostructure ...[more]