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SUBMITTER: Renner M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5738498 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Renner Marianne M Wang Lili L Levi Sabine S Hennekinne Laetitia L Triller Antoine A
Biophysical journal 20171201 11
In biological membranes, many factors such as cytoskeleton, lipid composition, crowding, and molecular interactions deviate lateral diffusion from the expected random walks. These factors have different effects on diffusion but act simultaneously, so the observed diffusion is a complex mixture of diffusive behaviors (directed, Brownian, anomalous, or confined). Therefore, commonly used approaches to quantify diffusion based on averaging of the displacements such as the mean square displacement, ...[more]